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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

another disinterested person, and the award of. a
majority shall be final, and the company shall pay
the same within ninety days after the date of their
award.

In force.

Sec. 21. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage, and con-
tinue in force until the year eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, and until the end of the next session
of the General Assembly which shall take place
thereafter, and that the Legislature reserves to
itself the right to alter or annul this act of incor-
poration at pleasure.

CHAPTER 376.

Passed Mar
9, 1864.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled, "An Act to
incorporate the Eastern Passenger and Freight
Railway Company," passed March tenth, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty, chapter two hundred
and fifty.

Re-enacted.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That sections one, two and eight of
chapter two hundred and fifty, passed March tenth,
eighteen hundred and sixty, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows: that Reuben
Tharp, Samuel T. Hopkins, William H. Councell,

Declared a
body politic.

James W. Benny and Joseph Raisin, and all and
every other person or persons hereafter becoming
members of this company in the manner hereinaf-
ter mentioned, their successors and assigns, shall
be and they are hereby created and declared to be
a body politic by the name and style of the Easton
Passenger and Freight Railway Company, and by
that name and style, shall have perpetual succes-
sion, and be capable in law of purchasing, holding,
improving, contracting for railroad iron, wood,
ties and every and all materials required or deem-
ed necessary, to use and lay down their tracks of
railway in the town of Easton, in Talbot county,