PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the conveyance referred to, be and
the same is hereby made as effectual and valid to all
intents and purposes as though said deed of assign-
ment had been signed and executed by said Henry
Brice, in the name of his principal, and as and for his
principal, any law or custom of this State to the con-
trary notwithstanding.

CHAP. 536.

Declared valid.

SEC. 2 And be it enacted, That nothing herein
contained shall be so construed so as to effect the
right or title of any purchaser or purchasers, tor a
bona fide consideration, to said property.

CHAPTER 536.

Not to affect

rights.

An act to Incorporate the Chesapeake and Delaware
Rail Road Company.

Passed
Mar. 9, 1850.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That Daniel Holtz, John S. Shriver,
Joseph Wilkins, John Guy, and A. J. Bonn, be and
they are hereby appointed commissioners under the di-
rection of whom subscriptions may be received to the
capital stock of the Chesapeake and Delaware rail road
company hereby incorporated, and they or a majority of
them, may cause books to be opened at such times and
places as they may direct, for the purpose of receiving
subscriptions to the said capital stock of said company,
after having given such notice of the times and places
of opening the same as they may deem proper, and if
such a subscription to the capital slock of said company
as is necessary for its incorporation be not previously ob-
tained, the said books may be opened from time to time
during the period of two years from the passage of this
act, at the discretion of said commissioners or a majority
of them, and if any of the said commissioners shall
die, or refuse to act during the continuance of the duties
devolved upon them by this act, another may be ap-
pointed in his stead by the remaining commissioners, or
a majority of them.

Commissioners
to receive sub-
scriptions.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
the Chesapeake and Delaware rail road company shall
be one million of dollars, in shares of one hundred
dollars each, which said capital may be increased at the
discretion of the commissioners or the directors, to be
appointed as hereinafter provided for, to any amount

Capital stock.