PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1847.

stockholders may be called at any time by the pre-
sident and directors of said company or by the stock-
holders thereof who shall be proprietors of not less than
one-fifth of the capital stock of said company, by giving
ten days notice of the time and place thereof, in one or
more papers published in Cumberland and Baltimore,
and of the objects of said meeting, and every such meet-
ing of stockholders shall have power to pass, amend, alter
and repeal bye-laws or resolutions which shall be binding
on the officers and agents of said company, and shall
also have power to require settlements, statements and
accounts relating to the business of said company from
officers and agents in their employment, and may also

CHAP. 282.

Special meet-
ings.

dismiss any directors and appoint others in their stead ;

provided always, that a majority in amount of stock of all
the stockholders be represented in said meeting.

Proviso.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of
enabling the said company to transport the produce of

the mines and the produce of the country through which
their rail road shall pass in the cheapest and most expe-
ditious manner, the said company and the presi-
dent and directors thereof shall be and they are hereby
respectively invested with all and singular the rights,
powers, privileges, authorities, immunities and advanta-
ges for the surveying, locating, establishing and con-
structing a rail road and its necessary appurtenances,
beginning the same at (he -mines of the said company,
and running to a convenient point or points on the basin
or canal of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal company, or
on the Potomac river at or near the town of Cumberland
in this State, and for the using, preserving and controll-
ing in perpetuity the said rail road, its necessary vehi-
cles and appurtenances and every part thereof, or bor-
rowing money on the credit of the company for its law-
ful purposes, which by the act incorporating the Balti-
more and Ohio rail road company and its several sup-
plements were for the lawful purposes of said company
and the benefits of its corporation given, granted, au-
thorised and secured to said company and its pre-
sident and directors respectively, as fully and perfectly

Rights and

powers.

as if the same were herein severally repeated; provided,

that it shall not be lawful for the said Baltimore Mining
Company to occupy or use any portion of the lands that
may be necessary for the accommodation of the canal
and works of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal company,
or for the main route of the Baltimore and Ohio rail road,
or that may be within the limits of either of the public
roads there now existing, except to cross these roads
without injury to the same; and provided also, that full

Provisoes.