A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 95

CHAPTER 65.
AN ACT to incorporate the Oakland Coal and Iron Mining and Manufacturing Company of Allegany County.	Passed March 20, 1865.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That John M. Amstrong, Jeremiah L. Townshend and Singleton Townshend Arm- strong, of Allegany county, and such other per- sons as may be associated with them hereafter in manner herein provided, shall be and they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic and corporate by the name of the Oakland Coal and Iron Mining and Manufacturing Company of Al- legany County, and by that name shall have suc- cession, and be able and capable to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, in any court of law and equity, and may have, and use a common seal, and the same to alter and renew at pleasure, and the said company shall have all the, powers, privileges and rights necessary for carrying on the manufacture of iron, fire brick and the mining of coal and for transporting to market the produce of their mines, lands and manufactories, and shall also have power to lease or purchase mines, lands and furnaces, with their appurtenances, and to hold all such property, real, personal and mixed,	Incorporated— rights and powers.
as they may require for the purpose aforesaid; pro- vided, that the said company shall at no time own more than five thousand acres of land, and said company shall have, power for the purpose afore- said, to make such by-laws, rules and regulations as may be necessary ; provided, they be, not repug- nant to any law of this State or of the United States.	Provisos.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of enabling said company to transport the produce of their mines to market, the said corporation and the President and Directors thereof shall be and are respectively invested with all and singular the rights, profits, powers, privileges, authorized im- munities and advantages, for the surveying, loca- ting, establishing and constructing a railroad or roads with the necessary appurtenances from their mines or works to connect at a convenient point or	Inveited with rights and privileges.