PRIVATE ACTS. 1489

public highways of Baltimore city, or any of them, without
the consent of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. And
the said company shall have the power to transport and haul
passengers, parcels, packages and general freight over said
railroad and to charge such rates of compensation therefor
as the board of directors may from time to time determine.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the railroad to be con-
structed shall be of single or double track, and shall have as
many sets of tracks, switches and turnouts and branches as the
said board of directors may deem necessary, and the said
board or their agent or agents duly authorized may cause to be
made, or contract with others for making, said railroad bed,
tracks, switches, turnouts, branches, power houses, power-
plants and trolleys or any part thereof, including building
bridges, necessary warehouses, depots and stations, and also
the full equipment of cars, motors necessary for the operation
thereof and all work whatsoever which may be necessary to
the proper completion and working of said railroad; and may
acquire any land, streams and water rights, earth, timber,
stone, sand, gravel or other materials required for any of the
purposes aforesaid; and may agree with the owner or owners
of any land, streams and water rights, earth, timber, stone,
sand, gravel or other materials, or any improvements which
may be wanted for the proper construction or repairs of said
railroad, its power plants or other of its works, for the pur-
chase and use and occupation and diversion of the same; and if
they cannot agree, or if the owner or owners of any of them
be a feme covert, under age or non compos mentis or out of
the county in which the property may lie when such lands or
materials may be needed, then said company may proceed to
condemn and acquire the same or the use thereof for the pur-
pose of said railroad or for the purpose of the motive power
thereof, in the manner provided for by the General Laws of this
State as now in force or as may be hereafter enacted, so far as
the same may be applicable, and may condemn lands, ease-
ments, rights, water rights, ways, materials and privileges for
the purposes of the company, in the manner aforesaid, and
shall have all other rights, privileges and powers which are
granted by said General Laws, so far as the same do not con-
flict herewith; provided, however, that none of the rights and
powers granted by this Act shall apply to or be effective within
the limits of Cecil county. It is further enacted, that the
corporation hereby incorporated shall exercise none of the
powers hereby granted in Harford county, State of Maryland,
and it is further enacted that none of the powers granted by
this Act shall be construed as in repeal of or in conflict with,