FRANK BROWN, ESQUIEE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 274.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Columbia and Mary-
land Railway, a corporation formed under Article twenty-
three of the Code of Public General Laws of this State,
title "Corporations," sub-title "Railway Companies," as
amended by the Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-two,
Chapter three hundred and eighty-three.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Columbia and Maryland Railway, a cor-
poration formed under the provisions of article twenty-three of
the Code of Public General Laws of this State, title "Corpora-
tions," sub-title "Railroad Companies," and which charter was
amended by the act of eighteen hundred and ninety-two,
chapter three hundred and eighty-three, in addition to the
powers possessed by it under its certificate of incorporation, as
prescribed by said article of the Code of Public General
Laws, and the act of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, chapter
three hundred and eighty-three, shall have the further powers
following, to wit: The said Columbia and Maryland Railway
shall have the power to lay down, contract, construct and operate
a railroad over a route in addition to the one set out and de-
scribed in section one of the act of eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, chapter three hundred and eighty-three, through the
counties of Baltimore, Harford and Cecil; but it is expressly
provided, that none of the powers conferred on said Columbia
and Maryland Railroad Company by section one of the said
act of eighteen hundred and ninety-two shall be impaired by
the provisions of this act.

Further
powers.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Columbia
and Maryland Railway shall have the power to increase the
issue of its stock and mortgage bonds referred to and named
in section three of the act of eighteen hundred and ninety-two,
chapter three hundred and eighty-three, as follows: To in-
crease the issue of the said stock, so that the total issue of its
said stock shall be four millions of dollars, and that the said cor-
poration shall also have the power to increase the issue of the
said mortgage bonds, so as to make the total issue of said bonds
six millions of dollars.

May increase
capital stock.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That said Columbia and
Maryland Railway shall, in addition to its existing powers,

May consoli-
date.