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Session Laws, 1831
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GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the amount of the addi-

CHAP. 350,

tional shares of stock which shall be subscribed, and paid

What shall consti-

as authorised and provided by this act the amount of stock

tute the capital of
this Co. defined—

which shall be paid by the corporations owning the turnpike

as to ensure divi-
dends &c.

road, between the cities of Baltimore and Washington, con-

 

formably to their subscription, in virtue of the act to which

 

this is a supplement; the amount of distinct and seperate

 

stock when elected, and taken by the state of Maryland as

 

provided by this act, or the act to which this is a supple-

 

ment, and the amount of funds which shall have been furnish-

 

ed by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road company to aid in

 

surveying and locating, and in effecting the construction and

 

completion of the rail road authorised by this act, and the

 

act to which it is a supplement, placing the cars and other

 

carriages and moving power on the said rail road, and pro-

 

viding stores and other buildings, scales, weights, and other

 

machinery and implements necessary to the beneficial use of

 

the said rail road, up to the time that the same shall be com-

 

pleted with two sets of tracks, fit for use by travel and trans-

 

portation, and the necessary cars, and moving power plac-

 

ed thereon shall, united, form the capital upon which the

 

net profits derived from the use of the said rail road shall be

 

apportioned, and the said net profits, reserving not more

 

than one per cent for contingencies, shall be divided, semi

 

annually in just proportions, and paid over to the state, and

 

the several corporations and individuals entitled thereto, and

 

once in three years the surplus profits shall be apportioned,

 

divided and paid over in like manner, and the amount of all

 

dividends which the Baltimore and Ohio rail road company

 

shall be entitled to, and receive out of the said net profits

 

shall form a part of the receipts and general funds of the

 

said company, and an item in estimating their semi annual

 

profits.

 

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the said company are here-

Remission to re-

by empowered to obtain by grant or purchase, land not ex-

ceive lands &c. for
depots.

ceeding ten acres, binding on the navigable water of the

 

eastern branch of the Potomac river, to be used as a depot,

 

and to extend the said rail road to such depot, and construct

 

thereon such warehouses, wharves and other improvements

 

as they may find to be necessary for the more beneficial use

 

of the said rail road, and the convenience of the public; and

 

the said company may in like manner obtain, improve, and

 

use any land not exceeding ten acres in any one place, as a

 

depot, in connection with the rail road which they are au-

 

thorised to lay out and construct in virtue of this act, and

 

the act to which this is a supplement.

 


 
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