1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 399

Inspectors re-
stricted in their
duties.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That from and after the pas-
sage of this act, the inspector of shingles and the inspec-
tors of lumber, and their several deputies, appointed from
time to time for the said village of Port Deposit, shall be
confined and restricted in their duties as inspectors, as
aforesaid, within the limits of the said village, and it shall
not be lawful for any other inspector now appointed, or
to be hereafter appointed, to inspect or count lumber or
shingles within the limits of said village.

Twenty dol-
lars forfeit.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That any person or per-
sons violating any of the provisions of this act, shall for-
feit and pay the sum of twenty dollars, one-half to the
informer and the other half to the use of the State, to be
recovered by action in the name of the State, before any
justice of the peace in Cecil county.

CHAPTER 399.

Passed Mar.
10, 1846.
Incorporated.

An act to incorporate the Chesapeake Railway Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That John Sands, Alfred Everson, George
Taylor, John Phillips, William H. T. Wilson and Tho-
mas T. Terry, and such other persons as may join with
them as subscribers, and their assigns shall be, and they
are hereby created a body politic, by the name and style
of the Chesapeake Railway Company, with power to re-
ceive subscriptions to the stock of the said company, to
build and repair vessels of all kinds and descriptions,
erect screw and other docks, to purchase and use all ne-
cessary machinery, tools, supplies and materials used in
and about the building and reparation of vessels, to pur-
chase and hold the land and erect the buildings necessa-
ry and convenient to the objects and purposes of the said
company, at or near to the city of Annapolis, to sue and
be sued, and to do such things as are incident by the
general laws of the State to corporations.

Capital $2, 000.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock
of the said company shall not be less than two thousand
dollars, nor more than twenty thousand dollars, and be di-
vided into shares of ten dollars each, and to be subscribed
for at the city of Annapolis after ten days public notice,
by the persons hereinbefore named.