A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE; GOVERNOR.

Commissioners or a majority of them shall call a
general meeting of the subscribers at such, time
and place as they may appoint, and shall give ai
least ten days public notice thereof; and at such
meeting the said commissioners shall lay the sub-
scription books before the subscribers then and
there present, whereupon the subscribers or a ma-
jority of them shall elect nine Directors by ballot
to manage the affairs of the Company, which Di-
rectors or a majority of them shall have power to
elect a President either from among the Directors
or others, and shall allow him such compensation
for his services as they shall deem proper, and in
said election and in all other elections by the
stockholders of said Company, each stockholder
of said Company shall be allowed one vote for every
share of stock owned by him or her to the extent
of one hundred shares, and for every additional
one hundred shares ten votes, and no person shall
be allowed to vote more than one thousand shares
of stock; the shareholders on the aforesaid cases
may vote either in person or by proxy, and the
Commissioners aforesaid or any three of them shall
be judges of the first election of Directors.

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Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the Company
hereby incorporated and organized shall nave
power to make and construct a railway with single
or double track, and sidlings as they may deem
expedient for the transportation of passengers by
horse or steam power from Baltimore city to Bel
Air, in Harford county, to connect with the Bal-
timore City Passenger Railway at the corner of
Chew street and Central avenue, or such other
place as may be deemed more advantageous to the
interest of the Company, but the said Company
shall not be required to make and construct the
entire line of said railway before using any part
thereof, and may use and run cars upon any part
thereof, if they should find it expedient and con-
venient to do so before completing the entire work.

May run cars
before comple-
tion of work.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That said Company
be and they are hereby authorized; provided, they
can obtain the assent of the Baltimore and Har-
ford Turnpike Company for that purpose, which
assent the said corporation is hereby fully autho-
rized to give, to construct and establish the said

With consent
may construct
railway on Bal-
timore and
Harford turn-
pike road.