St. Mary's gazette., 1866-06-14
CHAP PIER 1866.


passage
CHAPTER 100.
AN ACT >app emen,ary to an Act 70 IN
corporate the Magnetic Telegraph Com
prny pas>e3 1t December session, eigh-
teen hnut7ed aud forty s-s.x, chapter
.njrtr Que.
:. Section ( Be !, enacted By the Gene
RAJ Assembly of Maryland, That the said
Nagoeti, Telegraph Company. b. aud is
hereby authorized TO unite with any other
! Company or Companies engaged in the
buSincss Of transmitting messages by tele-
graph, So as to form and constitute one
company or corp1rarion. to be known by
! the name of the said Magnetic Telegraph
Company, on such terms and conditions,
! and conformably 10 such agreements and
regulations as the snid several companies
shall respectively determine and adopt,
subject nevertheless to the provisions that
all existing contracts, engagements and IL
abilities Of the said companies so uniting
and consolidating, shall be duly adopted
and assumed by the said consolidated
company, or shall else continue to bind
| the said several companies forming such
consolidation.
Section > Be it further enacted, That
it shall be lawful for the said parties SO
consolidating as aforesaid, to have and eX
crcse wi,hn this State, all the rights, priv
ilcges, conferred upon the Magnetic Ielc-
graph Company, by the Act to which this
g hoIl hn i.yC
full for the said consolidated company, if
the same shall be formed, to take, use and
adopt such corporate name as the said
consolidated company shall fix and de-
tcrmino upon, in lieu OF the name of the
Magnetic Telegraph Company; and in
case of making such change IN the said
name. it shall be the duty of the sad
consolidated company, to file forthwith in
the Office Of the clerk of the Superior
Court Of Baltimore city, certificate sign
ed by the President and Secretary of the
said corporation, showing its said name
and style, under the seal of the said con-
solidatcd corporation aforesaid, and shall
publish the name ofthc consolidation ia at
least orc newspaper published in tho ci-
ties of New York, Philadelphia and Bal
timorc, and thertupon it shall be the duty
of the clerk Of the said court to record the
said certificate, and the said new consoli
dated company shall have all the rights,
powers and privileges originally conferred
upon the Magnetic Telegraph Company
by the Act 10 which this is q supplement,
and may also have and exercise in a !di
ton thereto all the rights and privileges
which arc by article twentysiX of the
Public General Laws of this State con-
tcrred upon associations formed for tho
purpose of owning or constructing lines OF
telegraph to or from any point within this
State.
Section 3. BE it further enacted, That
the capital stock of the said consolidated
company shall not exceed in the aggregate
the amonnts Of tic capital stock OF the
said seyera! companies forming sad cen
soliaation but it shall be lawful for the
said consolidated company to increase ITS
cnpiTai 10 such amount as may be ncces ary
for the building Of any additional lines. Or
for the 1qnair Of purchase Of any existing
lines within his State, OF parly within
and nlrIv w;thou, tUis State, and IL or
der 10 such building and repair, anu rs to
the lines SO purchased. thc >aid consolda-
ted company shall have al the rights and
powers of the said Magnets Telegraph
compsny over and in relation 70 The lines
authorized 70 be built undtr iIs charter
aforesaid. and udcr said article twenty
six of the Public General Laws OF this
State nrori,{e9 h0ucuer, that the said
Magnetic Telegraph company shall only
form consolidation With any other telegraph
! line with the consent Of the company own
ing the same.
Section t. And be it enacted, That the
said consolidated Company shall be bound
on application Of any of the officers OF this
State, or the United States, acting IN the
event of any war, resurrection, rio', or
other civil commotion, or IN the preVcn-
ton or punishment Of crime, or the arrests
of persons charged or suspected thereof,
70 give to the communication OF sueh OF
fcers, immediate despatch, and the service
of q summons or writ on any officer, agent,
or attorney of said consolidated company,
/ shall Re 0 service of said summons or writ
on said corporation, and shall hold the
said corporation to answer before the tn,
bunal from whence such Summons or writ
may be issued.
Section 5. And be it enacted, That the
said consolidated company herc!nbetore
authorized to be cormed. shall continue IN
existence for the term Of forty years.
Section g. Aud be it enacted, That TINS
act shall take effect from its passage; and
! the General ASSEMBLY reserves TO l's'i'
the right 10 alter or anul this act at pleas
ure.
June 14th, 1856.