LLOYD LOWNDES, ENQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

all that part of said tenth election district lying east of Fishing
Bay, and known as Elliott's Island, and the voting place for
said third or Elliott's Island precinct shall be at Elliott's
Island.
SEC. 2. And, be it enacted, That the County Commissioners

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and Election Supervisors of Dorchester county are hereby
directed to make all necessary provisions for voting in said pre-
cinct, as they are now required by law for other polling places
in said county.

Approved April 9, 1898.

CHAPTER 419.
AN ACT to incorporate the National Park, Silver Spring and
Hyattsville Railroad Company.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Francis H. Smith, Roger Bellis and Jackson H.
Ralston, of Hyattsville, Maryland, Richard Morton, Jr., of

Provisions
made for
voting.

Baltimore, B. Gilpin Smith, of Conowingo, Maryland, Lewis
H. Finney, ofWashington, D. C., John Leeds Bowie, John C.
Davidson and H. Bradley Davidson, of Montgomery county,
Maryland, or such of them as may accept the provisions of
this Act, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted
a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the
National Park, Silver Spring and Hyattsville Railroad Com-
pany, and by that name shall be known in law, and shall have
perpetual succession, and have power to sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all courts,
whether in law or in equity, and may make and have a com-
mon seal, and alter and renew the same at pleasure, and shall
have, enjoy and exercise all the rights, powers and privileges
pertaining to corporate bodies and necessary for the purposes
of this Act, and may make by-laws, rules and regulations con-
sistent with the existing laws of the State of Maryland for the
government of all under its authority, the management of its
estate and properties, and the due and orderly conduct of its
affairs, with full power to locate, construct, equip, maintain and
operate a tramway or railroad line from a point on Rock creek,
in Montgomery county, at or near the boundary of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, through the counties of Montgomery and
Prince George's, to a point at or near Hyattsville, in Prince
George's county, and such branch lines not exceeding twenty
miles in length within said counties and the District of Colum-
bia, as shall be determined upon by a vote of two-thirds

Body
corporate.