The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-06-16
CHAPTER 81
AN ACT.

AN ACT,
To incorporate the Maidens Choice Passenger R.
r. Company, with power to construct gravel
road for general travel on the bed of said
road. j.
Section |. And be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That L. B. Calwell, Ed
ward Whittemore. Joseph B. Brinkley, John
Eshbaugh Samuel Wilhelm and Robert Fowler
are hereby appointed Commissioners to open
books and receive subscriptions to the capital
stock of the Maiden's Choice Passenger Railway
and Gravel Road Company, hereby incorporated
and they or a majority of them shall within thir-
ty days after the passage of this Act, procure
books which shall be opened at such time or
times and place or places as they may think
proper and in each of said books shall be made
the following entries We, whose names are
hereunto subscribed, do promise to pay to the
President and Directors of the Maiden's Choice
Passenger Railway and Gravel Road Company
the sum of ten dollars for each share of stock set
opposite our Names in such manner and pro-
| portion, and at such times as may be determined
| by the President and Directors of said Company
and ifany of the said Commissioners shall die or
decline to act, others may be appointed in their
stead by the remaining Commissioners.
| Sec 2 And be ii enacted, That the capital
stock of said Maiden's Choice Passenger Railway
and Gravel Road Company shall be one hundred
thousand dollars, in shares of ten dollars each,
and as soon as FIVE hundred shares of said stock
shall be subscribed the subscribers, their success
sors and assigns, shall be and are hereby declar-
ed body polite under the above name and IT,
tie, with all and every power to fully carry into
effect the provisions of this act of incorporation.
| Sec 3. And be it enacted, That the Commits
sioners aforesaid shall, as soon as conviently
may be after this act shall take effect, and after
| five hundred shares shall be subscribed as afore-
i riv rOficn in NM nprc
printed in Baltimore city and one in Baltimore
County, for the subscribers to meet and organize
the said Company, and choose by ballot, to be
given in person or by proxy, President and
and five Directors, the majority of whom shall be
owners of property, binding on said road, and
they shall have power to appoint such other Of
! fcers, and to make such by laws not inconsist-
ent with the laws not inconsistent with laws Of
| this State, as may be necessary to carry into
effect fully this Act said President and Directors
shall conduct the business of the Company until
the first day of January thereafter, or until
| their successors be elected.
| Sec A. And be it enacted, That stockholders
shall meet on the second Monday of January
| next after the organization Of said Company at
| the most convenient place convenient to said
road after having giving two weeks notice, three
times each week, Of the place of meeting, in o1e
or more Of the daily newspapers publishedin the
city of Baltimore and then and there elect a
President and five Directors for the ensuing year
who shall continue in office until their success
sors are duly elected.
Sec 5. And be it enacted. That the election
of officers aforesaid shall be conducted in the fol-
lowing 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 who shall decide upon the quail
ification of the voters, and when the election is
closed shall count the votes and declare who is
elected, and in case of death, refusal TO act or
any disqualification whatever majority of
those declared duly elected as above, may fill all
said vacancies.
Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That upon every
share of stock thus subscribed, there shall be
paid to such person or persons as may be APP
pointed to secure the same, the sum of five dollars
the balance at such times as the President and
Directors shall require, and should any subsrci-
Der fail or neglect to pay the same for the space
of thirty days, next after the same shall be due
and payable, the stock, on which it is demanded,
shall be forfeited to the company.
| Sec. Z. And be it enacted, That the said COM
pany is hereby declared to possess full power to
locate and construct a Passenger railway or
! Gravel Road, not to extend sixty-feet wide,
J from some convenient point within the limits of
the city Baltimore, to be selected by them, to a
point on the Patapsco river in Baltimore county,
and that in locating said road, as is hereby pro-
vided for, the President and Directors may enter
upon any land necessary for laying out, locating
or making said road, and may procure gravel,
earth, wood, timber for such use and obtain the
sight to the same as herein after provided.
Sec 8. And be it enacted, That the President
and Directors of said company may agree with
the owner or owners any lands earth, gravel,
timber or other materials necessary for the con-
struc;ion or repair of said road or its works, for
the purchase or use and occupation of the same /;
and in ease they cannot agree, or if the owner or
owners bel feme covert, non compcs nentis