406 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 205

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 246 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Corporations", sub-title "Mining Com-
panies '', be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:

246. The president and directors of any corporation men-
tioned in the preceding section shall be invested with full
power to locate and construct a railroad or railroads, with
necessary appurtenances, and shall be empowered to condemn
a right of way for such purpose, beginning the same at, or near,
the mines, manufactories or works of said corporation and run-
ning to any convenient point or points that may best suit the
convenience and interest of said corporation, or beginning at
the tipple or other works of said corporation or at a place
where said corporation intends or designs to erect such tipple
or other works, and running either on the surface, under-
ground, or by elevated road, or partly on the surface and
partly by the other methods, or one of them, to the vein of coal
or other minerals at the point at which said corporation may
desire to open or work the same; and to use and control said
"railroad or railroads, and the necessary vehicles and appur-
tenances thereto belonging"; provided however that the right
of condemnation granted by this section shall in no case be al-
lowed to interfere with the workings of any other mine or mines.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 205.

AN ACT to repeal Section 2 of Chapter 86 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of 1912, entitled "An Act to
amend the charter of the Annapolis Water Company as the
said charter was enacted by Chapter 123 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of 1865, by extending the
powers of the said Company to hold real and personal prop-
erty, providing for the management of said company by a
board of directors and making other changes in said char-
ter", and to re-enact the same with amendments, and to re-
peal any laws inconsistent therewith.

WHEREAS, The City of Annapolis, by power and authority
contained in the provisions of Chapter 322 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of 1904, and Chapters 86 and
118 of the Acts of 1912, has acquired all the stock of the An-