1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 34.

the rights and powers necessary to make a lateral rail
road from a point on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore rail road to the town hereinbefore authorized
to be laid out at the Great Falls of Gunpowder, and for
that and other necessary purposes shall have and may
use, enjoy and exercise, all and singular, the powers,
authorities, immunities and advantages which are con-
ferred by the third section of a further supplement to

Invested with
rights, &c.
Dela. & Mary-
land rail road
company.

the act to incorporate the Delaware and Maryland Rail
Road Company, passed December session eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-five, and by the tenth, eleventh, thir-
teenth, fourteenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth,
twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh
and twenty eighth sections of an act to incorporate the
Baltimore and Port-Deposite Rail Road Company are
given, granted, permitted, authorized or secured to Phil-
adelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail Road Compa-
ny, lor the purposes and objects thereof and benefit of
its corporators, or to the President and directors thereof,
or which by the said sections were intended to be given,
granted, authorized and secured collectively or severally
as fully and perfectly as if the same were herein repeated
and expressly given, granted, permitted, authorised and
secured to and conferred on said Great Falls Iron Com-
pany, their successors and assigns.

Directors to
locate road, &c
not exceeding
100 feet wide.

SEC. 6 And be it enacted, That the directors of said
Company shall be and they are hereby invested with all
the rights and powers necessary to the location, con-
struction and repair of the rail road not exceeding one
hundred feet wide, with the necessary addition for em-
bankments and excavations, and with as many sets of
tracks as the said directors, or a majority of them, may
deem necessary, and they or a majority of them may
cause to be made or contract with others for making said
road or any part of it; and they, their agents, or those
with whom they may contract for making any part of the
same, or their agents, may enter upon and use and exca-
vate any land which may be wanted for the site of said
road, or the erection of ware-houses, or other works
necessary to said road, or for any other purpose necessa-

Build bridges,
&c.

ry or useful in the construction or repair of said road, or
its works, and that they may build bridges, and fix scales
and weights, may lay rails, may take and use any earth,
timber, gravel, stone or materials which may be wanted
for the construction or repair of any part of said road,
or any of its works, and may make and construct all
works whatever which may be necessary and expedient
in order to the proper completion of said road.