PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1847.

persons and property transported on the rail road which
they are authorised to construct from their mines to the
canal, the Potomac river or any other intermediate points,
the same rales of loll or prices of transportation as the
Baltimore and Ohio rail road company are by law allow-

CHAP. 291.

ed to charge anil receive, and that the legislature re-
serves to itself the right to alter, amend or repeal this act
at its pleasure.

CHAPTER 290.

Reservation.

A supplement to an act entitled, an act to incorporate the
Mutual Life Insurance Company of Baltimore.

Passed

March 8, 1848.

SECTION 1. Re it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That so much of the third section of the act
to which this is a supplement, as provides for the time
of the general meeting of the members of the said com-
pany, be and the same is hereby altered to the third
Monday in January in each and every year, instead of
the last Monday in January.

Time of the
general meet-
ing changed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That so much of the

fourth section of the original act as requires the direc-
tion and management of said company to be entrusted
to twenty-five members of said company, be altered so
as to enable nine members of said company to constitute
a board for its management.

Number of the
managers re-
duced.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That so much of the fifth
section of said original act as is inconsistent herewith, be
and the same is hereby repealed, and that any five of said
directors may constitute a quorum.

Quorum.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the eleventh sec-
tion of the original act to which this is a supplement, be
and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 291.

Repealed.

An act to incorporate the Alexandria Mining Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That J. H. Lathrop, Daniel Bryan and W.
C. Bestor and such other persons as may be associated

Passed
March 2, 1848.

Incorporated.