1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 153.

dent and directors thereof, shall be and they are hereby
invested with all singular the rights, powers, privileges,
authority and advantages, for the surveying, locating,
establishing, constructing and making a rail road or rail
roads, and all necessary appurtenances, from any of
the mines or property, or from any pointer place of the
property or land of said company, or to, or from any
other place in Allegany county, which the Baltimore
and Ohio rail road passes, by virtue of the act by which
said company has been incorporated, and its several sup-
plements, and that all the powers therein given to said
Baltimore and Ohio rail road company, are hereby giv-
en, granted and secured to the said president and direc-
tors of the Westernport Coal Company, as fully and
particularly as if the same were herein severally report-
ed; and that for transporting passengers and receiving
toll on said rail road, the said company shall be and they
are hereby authorised and empowered to charge the
same as the Mount Savage Coal and Iron company, in,
Allegany county, named by an act passed in eighteen
hundred and thirty-seven, chapter fifty-seven.

Banking forbid.

SEC. 6 And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
contained, shall be so construed as to authorise said com-
pany to issue any note, token, scrip or other evidence of
debt, to be used as currency.

In force.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That, this act. shall en-
ure for seventy years from its passage, and the Legisla-
ture hereby expressly reserves the right to alter or annul
this act of incorporation at pleasure.

CHAPTER 153.

Passed Feb.

14, 1850.

An act to Incorporate the Swanton Coal and Iron
Company.

Incorporated,
&c.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John Swan, Charles F. B. Swan,
Robert Swan, and William Price, and all and every
person who shall become associated with them in the
manner hereinafter prescribed, shall be and they are
hereby incorporated, by the name of the Swanton Iron
and Coal Company, and as such, shall have succession,
and may have and use a common seal, and be able and
capable to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in
any court of law or equity, and may also have, use,
exercise and enjoy all the powers, privileges, and rights,