The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-04-21

TN accordance with an Act passed by the Leg
/ Il islature on the 24th of January, 1865 re-
quiring that every Public Local Local made tC
take effect before the first of June next, after
the session at which it may be passed, shall
Immediately after its passage be published once
in each of three successive weeks in all the
newspapers of the respective counties in which
| it may operate.
The undersigned; Commissioners of Balti
more county, hereby publish the following Lo
| cal Laws for Baltimore county:
JOSHUA +. COCKEY,
DAN'L j. McCAULEY,
| JAMES BUTTON,
Commissioners of Baltimore county.
CHAPTER A.
AN ACT TO incorporate the President and Di-
| rectors of the Baltimore and Pikesville Rail
road Company of Baltimore.
| SECTION l.-Be 1t enacted By the General As
sembly Of Maryland, That John T. 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 Pikesyille Railroad Com
| pany, hereby incorporated, and they, or a ma
| Jority of them, shall at any time within one
| year after the passage of this act, procure a
sufficient number of suitable books, which shall
| be opened at such time 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 do
promise to pay to the President and Directors
| of the Baltimore and Pikesville Railroad Com
| pany, the sum of twenty dollars for each and
every share of stock set opposite to our respec-
| 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 hn baltimore and PikaRvif1a 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 remainipgc
missioners.
SEC. 2.--AND BE IT ENACTED, That the capital
stock of said Baltimore and Pikesvlle Railroad
company shall be two hundred thousand dol
lars in shares of twenty dollars each, and as
soon rs 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 aud title of the Baltimore and Pikesville
Railroad Company, and by that name shall
have perpetual succession, and be capable in
law of purchasing, receiving, holding, using,
selling, leasing, nortgaging and conveying
goods and chattels, lands, tenementS and he
mixed property of whatsoever kind may sue
and be sued; plead and be implicated in all
courts Of this State or of the United States,
may make, have and use common seal, and may
also ordain, 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 appcrtain for the well be-
ing and ordering of said corporation; prorfded,
that nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued as in any way giving to the said corpo-
ration any banking privileges whatsoever.
SEC. 3.-ASD BE 1T ENACTED, That the commits
soners aforesaid shall, as soon as conveniently
may be, after i've hundred shall be subscribed
and paid for, as aforesaid, give notice in news
papers published in Baltimore and Towsontown
for the subscribers to meet and organize the
said company, and choose by majority of vo-
terS 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, a Treasurer
and such other officers as shall be deemed me-
cessary; said President and Directors shall
conduct the business and manage the 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. 4.--AND BE 1T ENACTED, That the stock
holders shall meet on the second Monday OF
June next after the organization OF said compa-
ny, provided for by the second section of this
act, and upon the same day in every year there
after, at Burlington Hotel, on said road, of which
notice shall be given by the Secretary, at least
FIVE days in the newspapers mentioned, and
choose by majority of the votes there present,
their officers for the ensuing year as mentioned
IL 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.-AND BE IT 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, well and truly, according to law, to con-
duct such election, and the said judges, or o
majority Of them, shall decide upon the quail.
fication 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 an
election Of any one or all OF the 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 newspapers as before mentioned, of the
time and place of holding said election, and the
President and Directors, and others last elect
oJ SI,ol1 ponfiOua tn act and he invested with
all the power belonging to their respective sit
uations, until another election shall take place;
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; provided,
the removal from the State of. any Director
shall not operate to vacate, should there be
majority of tho Directors still residing in the
State.
SEC 6-AxD BE IT ENACTED, That the Presi-
dent and Directors shall hold their meetings at
Buffington's 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
chairman, and the said Directors shall annual
ly, or oftener in case OF q vacancy, appoint a
Secretary, who shall keep minutes of their
transactions, fairly entered i'll book, and a
quorum of Directors being found present, they
shall have power and authority TO appoint all
such surveyors, engineers, superintendent 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 or
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
denee 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
ti6caie 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-