WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

CHAPTER 327.

An additional supplement to an act, passed at December
session eighteen hundred and thirty-four, chapter fifty-
three, relating to Vienna Bridge.

WHEREAS, certain non-residents of Somerset and Dor-
chester counties, are large tax payers in said counties, and
thereby contribute to the repairing and maintaining the
bridge at Vienna; and whereas, it is unjust that any citi-
zen should be taxed more than once for the same pur-
pose — therefore,

CHAP. 328.

Passed Mar. 10,
1840.

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act, all
non-residents of Somerset and Dorchester counties, who
hold properly in either of said counties, be and they are
hereby exempted and exonerated from paying toll for cros-
sing the bridge at Vienna, in the same manner as resi-
dents of Dorchester and Somerset counties now are.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the
act of eighteen hundred and thirty-four, chapter fifty-three,
as are inconsistent with this act, be and the same are
hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 328.

Non-residents
of Somerset and
Dorchester co's

exempt from

paying toll, &c.

Repealing
clause.

An act to incorporate the Baltimore Steam Packet Com-
pany.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That William McDonald, Robert A. Taylor,
Joel Vickers, John S. M'Kim, John B. Howell, Benja-
min Buck, Samuel McDonald, Thomas Kelso, John C.
Moale and others, their successors and assigns, be and
they are hereby created and made a corporate and body
politic, by the name and title of the Baltimore Steam
Packet Company, and by that name and title shall have
perpetual succession, and shall be capable in law to sue and
be sued in any court of law or equity; to have and to use
a common seal, and to alter the same when deemed ex-
pedient; and generally to do all such acts as shall be pro-
per and necessary for the purpose of employing one or
more steam boats, to navigate the Chesapeake bay and
its tributary streams, or to navigate the Atlantic coast, or

Passed Mar. 18,
1840.

Individuals in-

corporated.

Name and style.

Legal capacity.

General powers.