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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Entitled to
damages.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if any person or

persons owning the ferry across the Potomac river at the
town of Berlin, in Frederick county, Maryland, shall
be deprived of any rights or otherwise injured by the
provisions of this act, said person or persons shall be
entitled, upon application in proper form and to the
proper authority, to have the damages sustained by him,
her or them, in consequence of such deprivation or in-
jury, assessed by a jury In the usual form for cases of
damage made and provided, and said Berlin and Po-
tomac Bridge company shall be answerable to said per-
son or persons for said damages so ascertained.

Bridge not to
be used for
railroad.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That nothing in this
act shall be so construed as to authorise the use of said
bridge, for the purposes of a rail road or the construction
of a railway thereon.

In force.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from and after the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 228.

Passed

Mar. 10, 1854.

AN ACT to incorporate the Midland Coal and Iron
Company.

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Luther R. Marsh, Alien Clark,
Charles Day and such other persons as may become
associated with them, in the manner hereinafter provid-
ed, shall be and they are hereby constituted a body
politic and corporate by the name of the Midland
Coal and Iron Company, and by that name, shall have
succession and may be able and capable to sue and be
sued, to plead and be impleaded in any court whatever,
and may have and use a common seal, and may alter and
renew the same at pleasure, and the said body corpo-
rate shall have all the powers, faculties, franchises and
rights, necessary and proper for the carrying on the min-