JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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charges, advances, loans, interest, commissions and debts shall
constitute a lien thereon. And the said The Hazard Wharf
Company is hereby authorized to sell any of such minerals,
lumber, raw materials, manufactured products or other prop-
erty, and any of such bills of lading, storekeeper's or inspec-
tor's certificates, warehouse receipts, order for delivery or
evidence of title, ownership or possession or right thereto
or the property in any of such instruments mentioned or
referred to, upon such contingencies and terms and notice,
and in such, manner, and appropriate and apply the proceeds
in such manner as may be expressed in any warehouse
receipt issued therefor or otherwise lawfully agreed upon
between the said wharf company and the consignor or bailor
or pledger or other person. In case, however, no such other
provision is so made therefor and to the extent that no such
other provision is so made, the contingencies, time, terms and
manner of such sale shall be as follows: The sale may be

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made at any time, whenever any of said charges, advances,
loans, interest or commission or debts made a lien hereby,
shall be due and in arrear; it shall be made at such time and
place and on such terms as to said company may appear
judicious; of such sale, ten days' notice shall be given by
publication at least in one newspaper published in the city of
Baltimore or in the city or county in which the subject of the
lien to be sold may be situated ; the proceeds of such sale,
after paying the expenses thereof, shall he applied, first, to the
payment of the lien of the said wharf company, and then to
the payment of any other debt due to said The Hazard
Wharf Company by the consignor, bailor, pledger of the
property sold, .and the balance shall be paid on demand to the
person entitled thereto ; and delivery, according to the terms
of its warehouse receipt or contract, shall wholly relieve and
discharge the said Hazard Wharf Company from any and all
liability on account of any goods, wares or merchandise or
other property received, stored, shipped, handled or otherwise
dealt in by said corporation.

When sale
may be made

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That The Hazard Wharf
Company, aforesaid, is hereby authorized and empowered to
lay out and construct and operate a railroad or railroad tracks
and sidings to connect any wharves, docks, slips and ware-
houses which it may now own or hereafter acquire with the
tracks of any railroad company, or other property of any
common carrier over such route as said wharf company may
select, and to cross above, below or at grade, any road or turn-
pike and the tracks of any other railroad company ; provided,
however, that such route and tracks shall be so located and

Authority to
lay out,
construct and
operate
railroad
tracks and
sidings.