A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 401

CHAPTER 295.
AN ACT to recognize the Hampshire and Baltimore Coal Company, a Corporation created by and ex- isting under the Laws of the State'of West Vir- ginia, as a Cqrporation in the State of Maryland, and to authorize it to exercise the powers and privileges of a Corporation within the State of Maryland, for mining and other purposes.	Passsed Mar. 4, 1864
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem- bly of Maryland, That the Hampshire and Balti- more Coal Company, a body corporate created by and existing under the laws of the State of West Virginia, be and the same is hereby made and re- cognized as a body corporate and politic in the State of Maryland, and that the same be and is hereby authorized to purchase, lease, hold, use, sell or otherwise dispose of lands or other estate, real, personal and mixed, in Allegany county in the State of Maryland, and that the said company shall be and is hereby authorized to undertake and carry on the business of mining in said Alle- gany county, and that it shall have ami exercise all the rights and powers necessary for the estab- lishment and the proper conduct and management of such business.	Corporation recognized.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of enabling the said company to carry on its said business and to transport to market the produce of all mines which it may acquire, it shall have all the rights, powers and privileges granted by the twenty-sixth Article of the Code of Public General Laws of this State, relating to corporations and of any and all amendments thereto now in force or which may hereafter be enacted, subject, however, to all every limitation prescribed by said Article of said Code or amendments thereto, or which may hereafter be prescribed.	Rights and powers.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That for the purposes of said company it shall be and hereby is author- ized to borrow money and to issue its bonds for the same, bearing legal interevst, and to secure the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds 51	Authority to borrow.