1828

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 137.

cepted by the company, and the governor and council shall
have been notified, under the seal of the corporation, of
such acceptance.

Passed Feb 27, 1829

An Act to repeal part of the Act therein mentioned.

Section repealed

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the fifth section of an act, passed at this ses-
sion of assembly, entitled, An additional supplement to the
act for making the river Susquehannah navigable from the
line of this state to tide-water, be and the same is hereby
repealed.

CHAP. CXXXIX.

Passed Feb 25, 1829

An Act to Incorporate the Baltimore and Washington
Bail Road Company.

Subscriptions au-

thorised

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That William Patterson, William Lorman, John
S. Hollins, James Wilson, Cumberland D. Williams, John
B. Morris, Thomas Snowden, junior, John C. Herbert,
George Brown, Hanson Penn, and Edmund B. Duvall, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners, under the di-
rection of a majority of whom subscriptions may be receiv-
ed to the capital stock of the Baltimore and Washington
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 re-
ceiving subscriptions to the 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 that upon
the first opening of said books, they shall be kept open for
at least five successive days, from ten o'clock A.M. until
two o'clock P. M. and if at the expiration of that time such
a subscription to the capital stock of said company, as is ne-
cessary to its incorporation, shall not have been obtained,
the said commissioners, or a majority of them, may cause
the said books to be opened, from time to time, after the
expiration of the said five days, for the space of three months
thereafter, or until the sum necessary to the incorporation
of the company shall be subscribed; and if any of the said

may be appointed in his stead by the remaining commission-

Capital stock, In-

corporation

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of the
said Baltimore and Washington Rail Road Company shall
not exceed three hundred thousand dollars, in shares of fifty