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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

eighty feet wide, with as many sets of tracks as
the said President and Directors may deem ne-
cessary, and they may cause to be made, or con-
tract with others for making said railroad, or any
part thereof, or of said lateral railroads, and they,
their agents, or those with whom they may con-
tract for making any part of the same, or their
agents after the purchase and condemnation
thereof, in the manner hereinafter prescribed,
may enter upon and use and excavate any land
which may be wanted for the site of the said rail-
road, or the erection of the warehouses or other
works necessary for the said railroad, or for any
other purpose, necessary or useful for the con-
struction or repair of the said road or its works,
and that they may build bridges, fix scales and
weights, lay rails, and may take and use any
earth, timber, gravel, stone or other materials,
which may be wanted for the construction or re-
pair of any part of said road or its works, and
may make and construct all work whatso-
ever which may be deemed necessary or expedi-
ent, in order to the proper completion* of said
road.

Authorised to
borrow money.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That for the pur-
pose of constructing and equipping the aforesaid
Columbia and Fort Deposit Railroad, the said
Company is hereby authorised to borrow money
to any amount not exceeding five hundred thou-
sand dollars, the interest thereon to be paid semi-
annually, and to issue their bonds therefor, in
sums not less than one hundred dollars, and to
secure the payment of said bonds and their inter-
est by executing and delivering to such trustee or
trustees as they may select, a mortgage or mort-
gages of all or any part of the road, property,
rights, liberties and franchises, of the said Com-
pany in the State of Maryland.

Assent of Le-
gislature giv-
en.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the full and
entire assent of the State of Maryland be and the
same is hereby given to the provisions of any
law now enacted, or that may hereafter be en-
acted by the Legislature of Maryland, authoris-
ing the borrowing of money by the said Columbia
and Port Deposit Railroad Company to any
amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dol-
lars, the interest thereon payable semi-annually,