1832.

CHAP. 290

such forty-fifth day be Sunday, then on the Saturday imme-
diately preceding.

Repeal of consti-

tution inconsisent

thereto.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That any and every part of
the constitution and form of government, repugnant to,
or inconsistent with this act, be and the same is hereby
repealed.

CHAPTER 290.

Passed Mar.30, 1833

An act to Incorporate the Somerset and Worcester Rail Road
Company.

Commissioner

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That John Parsons, John Austin, M. D., Peter
Bell, George Todd, James Hooper, Humphrey Humphreys,
Thomas Hooper, Elijah Parsons, Isaiah Smith, James Mi-
nus Fooks, John Dennis, (of Thomas), and Levi Cathell,
be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, under

To receive sub-

scription.

the direction of whom subscriptions may be received to the
capital stock of the "Somerset and Worcester Rail Road
Company;" and they, or a majority of them, may cause

To open books.

books to be opened at such times and places as they may
direct, for the purpose of receiving such subscriptions, after
having given thirty days notice of the time and place or
places of opening the same; and if so much of the capital
stock of the said company be not previously subscribed,
the said books may be re-opened from time to time, during
the period of two years, from the passage of this act, at the

Vacancy supplied.

discretion of the said Commissioners, or a majority of them;
and if any of the said Commissioners should die, resign, or
refuse to act, during the continuance of the duties devolved
upon them by this act, the vacancy may be supplied by the

Capital $100,000

Shares $25

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock ot
the Somerset and Worcester Rail Road Company, shall be
one hundred thousand dollars, in shares of twenty-five dol-
lars each, and as soon as one thousand shares of the said
capital stock shall have been subscribed, the subscribers,
their successors, and assigns, shall be, and they hereby are,

Subscribers incor-

porated

incorporated, by the name of the "Somerset and Worcester
Rail Road Company," and by that name shall be capable,

Legal capacity.

in law, of purchasing, holding, selling, leasing, and con-
veying estates, real, personal, or mixed, so far as shall be
necessary for the purposes hereinafter mentioned; and shall