JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 441

CHAPTER 292.
AN ACT to authorize the State Line and Juniata,
(now Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York Rail
Road Company,) to construct and operate their
railroad within the limits of this State.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Baltimore, Philadelphia, and	Authorized to purchase
New York Railroad Company, formerly the State
Line and Juniata Railroad Company, a corporation
created by virtue of an act of the Legislature of
Pennsylvania, approved on the fifth day of April, in
the year eighteen hundred and seventy, and the sup-
plement thereto, are hereby authorized and empow-
ered to purchase and acquire the corporate franchises
and all the property, real, personal and mixed, of the
Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, a
corporation created and existing under the Laws of
the State of Maryland, together with all its rights,
privileges and benefits, and under the said corporate
name of the Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York
Railroad Company, to hold, use, possess and enjoy
the same, and to construct, complete and operate
said railroad so purchased under the provisions and
limitations mentioned and contained in the act ap-
proved the fourth day of April, eighteen hundred
and seventy, chapter four hundred and seventy-six,
entitled "an act to provide for the creation and
regulation of incorporated companies in the State of
Maryland." But the said corporation shall not ex-	Shall not exer-
ercise in this State any powers other than those con-	cise
ferred npon the said Maryland and Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company, a corporation created under the act of
eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter four hundred
and seventy-six, and shall not build, construct or
operate any rail road within the limits of this State,
except such single line of railroad, with one or more
tracks, as it may construct, build or operate within
Baltimore, Hariord, and Cecil counties, and in Bal-
timore city within this State, under the provisions
of the said last mentioned act; provided, however,
that the property of said corporation shall be taxed
as other property of this State is now or shall here-
after be taxed by law.