ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1267

moving the limitation therein upon the amount of land to
be held by said corporation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 1 of Chapter 337 of the Acts of 1864
of the General Assembly of Maryland, entitled "An Act to
incorporate the Union Mining Company of Allegany County, "
is hereby amended by striking out the last clause thereof which
reads "provided, however, that said company shall not at any
time actually hold, as owners thereof, more than five thousand
acres of land, " so that said Section 1 when amended shall read
as follows:

1. That George W. McCulloh, F. A. Mason, Thomas H.
Frost, C. M. Graham, John Neff, and such other persons as
may become associated with them, in the manner hereinafter
provided, shall be and they are hereby constituted a body
politic and corporate, by the name of the Union Mining Com-
pany of Allegany County, and by that name shall have succes-
sion, and be able and capable to sue and be sued, to plead and
be impleaded in any court whatever, and at pleasure, and the
said body corporate shall have all the powers, faculties, fran-
chises and rights necessary or proper for the mining of coal,
iron ore, making coke, and for the beneficial management of
its property, and for the transportation and vending of its coal
and other proceeds, issues and products of its mines and prop-
erty to market, and shall have power and authority to purchase,
lease and hold any property, real, personal and mixed, which
may be deemed by said company necessary for its purposes.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said corporation
may continue to own, hold and use all property now or here-
after owned by it as fully and to the same extent as though
said limitation had not been contained in its charter.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take

effect June 1st, 1929.

Approved April 11, 1929.

CHAPTER 525.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 28
of Article 97 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924
Edition), title Weights and Measures, " making two thou-
sand pounds the standard weight of a ton of coal.