PH1LIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1847.

SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That all laws and
parts of laws in conflict with this act, for so much as

they conflict therewith, be a and the same are hereby re-

pealed.

CHAPTER 229.

CHAP. 229.

Inconsistent
acts repealed.

An act to incorporate the Valley Mining and Manu-

facturing Company.

Passed

March 8, 1848.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That Christian E.. Detmold and Archibald
Carey of Allegany county, and such other persons as
may be associated with them hereafter in manner

herein provided, shall be and they are hereby incor-
porated and made a body politic and corporate by the

Incorporated.

name of the Valley Mining and Manufacturing Com-
pany, and by that name shall have succession and be
able and capable to sue and be sued, to plead and be
impleaded in any court of law and equity, and may
have and use a common seal and the same to alter and
renew at pleasure, and the said company shall have all
the powers, privileges and rights necessary for carrying
on the manufacture of iron and the mining of coal, and
for transporting to market the produce of their mines,
lands and manufactories, and shall also have power to
lease or purchase mines, lands and furnances with their
appurtenances, and to hold all such properly, real, per-
sonal and mixed as they may require for the purpose

Name and
style.

aforesaid; provided, that the said company shall, at no
time own more than five thousand acres of land, and
said company shall have power for the purposes afore-
said to make such bye laws, rules and regulations as
may be necessary; provided, they be not repugnant to
any law of this State, or of the United States.

Provisoes.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, For the purpose of
enabling said company to transport the produce of their
mines to market the said corporation and the president
and directors thereof shall be and are respectively, in-
vested with all and singular the rights, profits, powers,
privileges, authorities, immunities and advantages for
the surveying, locating, establishing and constructing a
rail road or roads with the necessary appurtenances from
their mines or works to connect at a convenient point
or points with other existing rail roads in Allegany

Corporate
powers.