The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-04-14

the session mt which it may be passed. shall
Immediately after its passage be published once
in each of three successive weeks in all th'
newspapers Of the respective counties in which
1T may operate.
| The undersigned. Commissioners of Balti
more county, hereby publish tho following .Lo
cal Laws for Baltimore county:
JOSHUA F. COCKEY.
~ DAN'L j. McCAULEY,
JAMES BUTTON,
Commissioners of Baltimore county.
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a CHAPTER 43.
AN ACT to incorporate the President and Di.
rectors of the Baltimore and Pikesville Rail.
road Company of Baltimore.
/ SECTION BE 1t enacted by the General AS
sem6ly Of Marytond, That John It. Ford, Will
/ liam Thomson, Charles Ii. Mills, Gustavus A
| Thomson and Covington D. Barnett, be and are
| hereby appointed commissioners TO open books
and receive subscriptions to the capital stock
of the Baltimore and PikesvlIe Railroad Com
/ pany, hereby incorporated, and they, or ma
! jority of them, shall at any time within one
year after the passage of this act, procure q
sufficient nnm Der of suitable books, which shall
| be opened at such time or times. place or places
as they may think proper, in each OF which
said books shall be made the following entry
We whose names are hereunto subscribed dc
promise to pay to the President and Directors
Of tue Baltimore and Pikesville Railroad Com.
.pany, the sum of twenty dollars for each and
every share of stock set opposite to our rcspcc-
tive names in such manner and proportion and
at such times as shall be determined by the
President and Directors of the said Company
in pursuance Of an act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland entitled, An Act TO incorpo-
rate the Baltimore and Pikesviile Railroad
Company" as witness our hand and seals this
- day of ----- in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and -, and
if any of the said commissioners shall die or
decline to act before the fulflment of the duties
devolved on them by this act, others may be
appointed in their stead by the remaining gcom-
mssioners.
SEC. 2.--AND DE 1T ENACTED, That the capital
stock of said Baltimorea and Pikesville Railroad
company shall be two hundred thousand dol
lars in shares of twenty dollars each, and as
soon as five hundred shares of said stock shall
be subscribed and paid in, the subscribers, their
successors and assigns, shall be and are hereby
declared to be incorporated by the name and
style and title of the Baltimore and Pikesville
Railroad Company, aud by that name shall
have perpetual succession, and be capable IN
law of purchasing, receiving, holding, using,
selling, leasing, mortgaglng and conveying
goods and chattels, lands, tenements and he
rcditaments and all real estates, personal and
mixed property of Whatsoever kind may sue
and be sued, plead and be implicated in all
courts of this State of the United States,
may make, have and use common seal, and may
also ordaip, establish and enforce such by laws
and regulations as they shall deem necessary
for the government of said corporation not re
pugnant to the Constitution and laws OF this
State and of the United States, and generally
may do all and singular the matters and things
and exercise all rights, powers and privileges
which may properly appertain for the well be
ing and ordering of said corporation; proutded,
that nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued as in any way giving to the said corpo
ration any banking privileges whatsoever.
SEC. 3.-AND BE 1T ENACTED, That the commits
sioners aforesaid shall as soon as conveniently
NAV be, after five hundred shall be subscribed
and paid for, as aforesaid, give notice in news
papers published i'll Baltimore and Towsontown
for the subscrjb bers to meet and organize the
said company, and choose bya majority OF vo-
9ters of the said subscribers, by ballot, to be
given in person or by proxy, one President and
seven Directors, majority OF whom shall be
residents of the State of Maryland, Treasurer
and such other officers as shall be deemed ne
cessary said President and Directors shall
conduct the business and managethe concerns
of the said company until the second Monday
of June thereafter, and until like officers are
chosen to succeed them, and may make and
enforce by laws, rules and regulations provided
for by the second section of this act.
SEC Amp DE IT ENACTED, That the stock
June next after the organization of said compa
ny, provided for by the second section OF this
act, and upon the same dayin every year there
after at Burlington Hotel, on said road, OF which
notice shall be given by the Secretary, at least
Eve days in the newspapers mentioned and
choose by majority of the votes there present,
their officers for the ensuing year as mentioned
in the third section of this act, who shall con-
tinue' for one year and until others are chosen,
and the said stockholders shall meet at such
other times as they may be summoned so to do
by the Directors in such manner and form as
shall be prescribed by the bylaws, and at the
annual and special meetings they shall have
full power to do any corporate act consistent
with this charter.
SEC. 5--AED BE 1T ENACTED, That the election
of officers aforesaid shall be conducted In the
following manner, that is to say the Directors
for the time being shall appoint three of the
Stockholders, not being Directors, to be judges
of the said election, and to conduct the same
after having severally taken and subscribed an
affirmation before Judge or Justice OF the
Peace we'll and truly, according tolaw, to con
duct such election, and the said Judges, or g.
majority of them, shall decide upon the quail
ficatiop Of the voters, and when the election is
closed shall count the votes and declare who
has been elected, and if it shall happen that a n
election of any one or all of tho officers OF SAID
company shall not be made, the corporation,
for the cause, shall not deemed to be dissolved !;
that it shall be lawful to hold and make such
election for President and Directors, Treasurer
and other officers, on the same day or any day
thereafter, by giving at least ten days notice
thereof signed BY the President or Secretary,
in the newspa pers as before mentioned, of the
time and place of holding said election, and the
President and Directors, and others last elect
cd, shall continue to act, and be invested with
all the power belonging to their respective sit
alaa hal1 a
in case of death, resignation refusal or neglect
to act or removal from the State of any officer,
his place shall be filled by the Board of Direc
tors until the next annual election prortded,
the removal from the State of any Director
shall not operate to vacate, should there be
majority Of the Directors still residing In the
State.
Src. 6.-ANp pE 1T ENACTED. That the Pres-
dent and Directors shall hold their meetings at
Buflinptons Hotel, situate on said road, or such
other places as the Stockholders shall direct,
and when met, four shall form quorum, who
in the absence of the President may choose q
chairman, and the said Directors shall annual
w. or oftener in case of vacancy, appoint
Secretary, who shall keep minutes of their
transactions, fairly entered in book, and
quorum of Directors being found present, they
shall have power and authority to appoint all
such surveyors, engineers, ,superntendents and
other artists and officers as they may deem ne
cessary to carry on the intended work, and
to fix thoir salaries and wages, and to draw
ders on the Treasurer for the same, which shall
be signed by the President and countersigned
by the Secretary
SEC. 7.--AND BE 1T ENACTED, That the Presi-
dent and Directors procure certificates or evil
dence of stock for all the shares of said COM
pany, and shall deliver one such certificate,
signed by the President and countersigned by
the Secretary, and scaled by the common seal
of said company, to each person for every share
by him or her subscribed and held which Ger
tifieate shall be transferred at his or her plea
sure, in person or by attorney legally authorized
in the presence of the President or Secretary,
subject, however, to all payments due or to be-
come due thereon, and the assignee holding
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