PRIVATE ACTS. 1423

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation, under
the above name and style shall be capable in law to sue and be
sued, to plead and be impleaded, and to complain and defend
at law or in equity, to have and to use a common and corporate
seal, and to alter and renew the same at pleasure, and other-
wise in all things to do, execute and perform whatever any cor-
poration and body politic, or individual may, can or might law-
fully do, execute and perform within the scope and for the
object and purpose of said corporation.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That said corporation shall have
power to make, construct, lay down, equip and operate and
maintain a railway for the transportation of passengers and
freight, with double or single tracks with necessary and proper
switches, turnouts, sidetracks, offices and depots, and any and
all mechanical contrivances, devices and appliances, suitable to
operate a railway and to run thereon cars and carriages drawn
or propelled by steam, electric or other motor power in
Wicomico county, in the State of Maryland, from Bivalve, a
point on the Nanticoke river, on the west side of said county,
to the village of Willards, on the east side of said county, with
the further power and privilege of extending the same to and
through the different towns and villages along said route or
territory, and if the said corporation shall deem it advisable
and expedient, and also the further power and authority to
ran such laterals or branches within said county as the Board
of County Commissioners and Town Commissioners of the
various incorporated towns may permit, not exceeding fifteen
miles from the line of said railroad, and said corporation shall
lave the power to charge such reasonable rates for such trans-
portation of passengers and freights on said railway, and any
of the branches or laterals thereof, as the board of directors
may from time to time determine; and the said corporation
shall also have the power and right to acquire, hold and man-
age and dispose of any real or personal property essential,
necessary or relevant to the uses and purposes aforesaid, and
also to acquire any real estate adjacent to such line of railway
or any lateral or branch thereof, and to develop and sell said
property, and the said corporation shall also have the power
to manufacture, furnish, sell and use electricity, electric power
and light in the different towns and villages along said route
or territory in Wicomico county, and to contract for and
furnish electric lights for lighting the streets, roads, public or
private buildings in the different towns and villages along said
route or territory in said county within fifteen miles of said
railroad, and for motive power and other purposes, and said
corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to lay, erect,