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CHAP. 338
Body
corporate.
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hereinafter provided, are hereby constituted and made a
body corporate, by the name of the Sinnepuxent Salt Water
Inlet Company, with authority to dig an inlet to salt Sinne-
puxent bay, between Fenwick island and Green run, at
any place they may deem most suitable, with power to dig
canals, condemn land across the beach, for the use of the
said Sinnepuxent Salt Water Inlet Company, and all other
necessary purposes, and drive piling, dam the bay to change
the current, provided they leave a passage for boats not less
than that of the draw at Ocean City bridge, which now is in
use; and the company to have the power to lease or rent, ap-
proximately, one-half of the bottoms of the bay and its tribu-
taries, made good by the salt water for the use of the Sinnepux-
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Certain power
granted.
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ent Salt Water Inlet Company, and to have the authority to
elect officers and call meetings and transact all business of the
company, for the purpose of constructing an inlet or a canal
for the salting of Isle of Wight, Assawoman and Sinne-
puxent bays and tributaries for oyster planting and farming
only, the object of which shall be to connect the waters
of the Isle of Wight, Assawoman and Sinnepuxent bays
in Worcester county, with the Atlantic ocean, with all the
works, banks, locks and appurtenances that may be neces-
sary for the introduction of salt water for the cultivation and
planting of oysters; and by the aforesaid corporate name the
said incorporators herein named, their associates and succes-
sors, and all persons who may be stockholders as hereinafter
provided, shall be and they are hereby made capable in law
of purchasing, holding, leasing, selling and conveying estate,
property, real, personal and mixed, so far as shall be neces-
sary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid and herein-
after mentioned, and shall have perpetual succession; and by
said corporate name may sue and be sued, and have and use
a common seal, and the same to alter and renew at pleasure,
and also to ordain, establish and put in execution such by-
laws, ordinances and regulations as shall seem necessary for
the government and management of said corporation, and to
alter and repeal the same at pleasure; and shall have and
exercise all the rights, powers and privileges which corpor-
ate bodies may lawfully possess for the purposes mentioned
in this Act.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said
corporation shall be seventy-five thousand dollars, to be
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