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CHAP. 477.
How fines,
penalties and
forfeitures
imposed are
recovered.
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nance passed by said Mayor and Council shall be recoverable
in the name of the Mayor and Council of Friendsville before
such justice of the peace of the State of Maryland residing in
district No. 2 in Garrett county as may be elected police
justice for said town by said Mayor and Council, and no other,
as small debts, and hall be paid to the Mayor and Council
for the use of said town, and any one feeling aggrieved
by any judgment rendered by said police justice shall have a
right of appeal to the Circuit Court for Garrett County to
the next term of said Court, but no judgment, fine or penalty
imposed shall be stayed unless the party taking the appeal
shall tile a bond to be approved by said justice in double the
amount of the tine and costs to the Mayor and Council of
Frieudsville, conditioned upon the successful prosecution of
said appeal.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.
CHAPTER 478.
AN ACT to authorize the consolidation of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company and the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company.
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Consolidation
of roads.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad Company, and the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
Company be and they are hereby authorized to merge and
consolidate the said companies, their capital stock, franchises,
railroad and other property, so as to form one corporation,
upon such terms and conditions as may be by them agreed
upon ; the method of proceeding to effect the consolidation
hereby authorized shall be as follows: It the board of direc-
tors of each of said companies, respectively, shall, by resolu-
tion duly adopted by them, declare that in the judgment of
said board of directors the best interests of the said com-
panies require the merger and consolidation of said companies,
and of their capital stock, franchises, railroad and other prop-
erty, then, and in that event, the board of directors of eacli of
said companies are hereby authorized to agree, on behalf of
their respective companies, upon the terms and conditions
of merger and consolidation, the mode in carrying the
same into effect, the name of the new corporation, the
number and names of the directors and other officers thereof,
who shall be the first directors and first officers, and their
places of residence, the number of shares of the capital
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