FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

plement, to construct a rail road from their mines or Works,
to some intermediate point or points between the basin of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at Cumberland and their
works or mines aforesaid, should circumstances render the
extension of their road to the basin of the canal at Cum-
berland unnecessary, as will probably be the. case, if the
Baltimore and Ohio rail road company, or the said canal
company, extend their works up the valley of Jennings'
run, to give additional facilities to the coal and iron trade—
therefore,

CHAP. 28.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall not be ne-
cessary for the said Maryland and New York Iron and
Coal Company, to construct their said rail road or any late-
ral way from their said works or mines to the basin of the
said canal at Cumberland, but that the same may be stop-
ped at any intermediate point, at the discretion of the com-
pany, and that it shall be lawful to charge the same rates of
toll for the transportation of persons and property upon such
road when constructed, as are authorized by the first sec-

May stop
rail road, at
discretion

tion hereof; provided, that the said rail road be constructed
so as to intersect with the extension of the Baltimore and
Ohio rail road, or the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, or the
improved navigation of Wills' creek, by canal or otherwise.

Proviso

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That a quorum for
the transaction of business of the said Maryland and New
York Iron and Coal Company, shall hereafter consist of the
President and any two Directors, as required by the fourth
section of the act to which this is a supplement

Quorum.

CHAPTER 28.

A supplement to an act entitled, An act to incorporate a
Company to make a Turnpike Road from the Square, in
the Town of Boonsborough, in Washington County, to
Swearingen's Ferry, on the Potomac River.

Passed Jan.
21, 1842

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the President and Managers of the Boons-
borough Turnpike Road Company shall, for the benefit of
the stockholders of said company and all persons interested
therein, require the secretary to make a full and detailed
statement from the books of said company, of the affairs of
the same, from the date of the act of Assembly to which
this is a supplement, up to the date of said statement, show-
ing the amount of subscriptions to the capital stock of said
company; who were the original subscribers therefor, and

Clerk to make
and publish a
general state-
ment, show-
ing who were
original sub-
scribers, &c.