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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the Worcester Rail Road
Company, a body corporate, created by the act of
eighteen hundred and fifty-three, chapter two hun-
dred and seventy-three, be and the same is hereby
authorised and empowered, upon expressing its
assent to and accepting this act, to unite and con-
solidate its company or corporation, with the north
and south rail road company of Virginia, The Lewes
and Millsboro' Rail Road Company of Delaware,
and the Raritan and Delaware Bay Rail Road Com-
pany of New Jersey, so as to form and constitute
one company or corporation, to be called by such
name as may be agreed upon by the said companies,
or selected by the said company or corporation when
consolidated, on such terms and conditions, and con-
formably to such agreements and regulations, as the
said several companies shall respectively determine
and adopt; which companies when so united and
consolidated shall be a body corporate and politic in
fact and name, by such name as shall be agreed upon
by the said several companies, or selected by the said
company when so consolidated; the business and
affairs of which said company, shall be managed by
a board consisting of twenty-one directors, to be
annually chosen from among the stockholders of the
capital stock of said company, at such time and
place as shall be appointed and required by the by-
laws of the company, three of which directors shall
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