1350 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 665

road of the Company so consolidating upon such terms as may
be agreed upon; provided, however, that the agreement for such
consolidation shall be submitted to the stockholders of the
Railroad Company incorporated under the laws of this State at
a special meeting called for considering the same, and shall
be sanctioned by the holders of a majority of the stock of
such Company, and if sanctioned at such meeting by such, hold-
ers of a majority of the stock, shall be filed in the office of
the Secretary of State of this State; and provided further,
that such agreement shall contain no provisions in conflict with
the provisions of this Article, or which shall exempt such
railroad so far as it lies in this State from the operation of
the laws of this State, and nothing in this Section shall be
construed to authorize the consolidation of any Railroad Com-
panies owning or operating competing or parallel roads or
parallel lines of railroad, which is hereby declared to be un-
lawful and expressly prohibited without the special consent
of the General Assembly being first obtained therefor.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the first day of June, 1916.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 665.

AN ACT to authorize and request the State Roads Commission
of Maryland to build and maintain a bridge from the main-
land to Ocean City across Sinepuxent Bay in Worcester
County.

WHEREAS, A system of good roads has been completed under
the direction of, and cost of, the State of Maryland connecting
Ocean City in Worcester County with the other Counties of
the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Baltimore City and other
points in the State; and whereas it is eminently desirable in
view of the growing size, importance and popularity of Ocean
City as the only watering place on the Atlantic Coast in Mary-
land that the means of access thereto be made easy, safe and
convenient; and it now appears that the only bridge spanning
Sinepuxent Bay and furnishing the sole connection between
Ocean City and the main land is an old wooden drawbridge,
owned and controlled by the Baltimore, Chesapeake and At-
lantic Railway Company, which bridge is too narrow at the