The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-04-08
The Egis 4 Intelligencer,
BEL AIR, MD, APRIL 9Th, 1870.
A BILL
ENTITLED AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE HARTFORD
COUNTY RAILROAD COMPANY.

SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General AS
semblv of Maryland, That Henry D. Farnandis,
Henry w. Archer, Edwin H. Webster, Steven
son Ar ,rr, Howard Munnikhuysen, DR.. Thomas
e. Bond, Lindley NJ. Vail, Col Ramsey Nc
Henry and Franklin Whitaker, and all and
every other person or persons who with them or
in their stead, shall hereafter become members
Of the Hartford County Railroad Company in the
manner hereinafter mentioned their successUls
and assigns, shall be, and are hereby created and
declared to be q body corporate and polite by
the name and style OF the Hartford County Rail-
road Company, and by that name shall and may
have perpetual succession, and be capable in law
of purchasing, holding, improving and dispos-
ing of property, real personal and mixed, for
the purposes hereinafter authorized and may
sue and be sued, plead and be implicated an
swer and defend in all Courts of Law and Equity,
and may make, execute and deliver or have or
cause to be made, executed and delivered 10 them
all Deeds transfers, gifts, grants, convey 5,
covenants, contracts, agreements and u suns
whatsoever necessary for the purposes aud objects
of said Company, and may have and use a COM
mon seal, which they shall have power to alter or
renew at pleasure, and generally to do every 9TH
er Act or thing necessary to carry into effect the
provisions, objects and purposes of this Act, and
not inconsistent with the laws of this State or
of the United States.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the purposes
and objects for which the Hartford County Rail-
road Company is incorporated are the locating,
making, constructing, repairing and working a
railroad from Bel Air, in Hartford county, to
some point on the Philadelphia Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad between Bush and Gnnpow-
der rivers, with the lateral ways and extensions
hereinafter provided for, putting cars, machinery
and motive power on the same for conveying pas
sengers and freight, and charging tolls thereon
as hereinafter regulated and described
SEC. g. And be il enacted, That the capital
stock of said Company shall be three hundred
thousand dollars, which may be increased at the
discretion OF said corporators or of the Presi-
dent and Directors of said Company to any
amount not exceeding six hundred thousand
dollars, and the said Company may take for
their stock, subscriptions in land, at valua-
ton to be fixed and agreed upon by said Com
pany, and the owners of such lands.
Sec. q. And be it enacted, That the said
Henry D. Farnandis, Henry W. Archer Edwin
II. Webster, Stevenson Archer, Howard Munnik-
huysen, Thomas r. Bond, Lindley NJ. Vail, Col
Ramsey McIIenry and Franklin Whitaker, or
such one OR more of them as the Others, or q
majority of them shall, for that purpose, author-
ize and appoint, may take and receive subscrip-
lions to the capital stock of said Company in
such manncr'and on such terms as they, or a
majority of them, shall choose or designate, in
shares of fifty dollars each to such amount MS
they may deem necessary, not exceeding the
capital as hereinbefore limited, and any person or
persons who shall become holders, or entitled to
one or more shares of said stock, shall thereupon
become member of the Hartford County Rail
road Company hereby incorporated, and as such
shall be entitled to one vote IN person or by
proxy, at all meetings of the stockholders for
each share of stock So held by him or them on
which all installments due shall have been paid
and until twelve hundred shares of SAID stock
shall have been subscribed, and three thousand
dollars in cash shall have been paid thereon, the
said Henry D. Farnandis, Henry w. Archer,
Edwin II. Webster Stevenson Archer, Howard
Munnikhuysen, DR.. Thomas E. Bond, Lindley
NJ. Vail, Col. Ramsey McIIenry and Franklin
Whitaker, or n maj rty of them shall have and
may exercise all the corporate rights of the said
Hartford County Railroad Company and if any of
said corporators shall die or refuse to act during
the continuance of the duties devolved upon them
by this Act Others may be appointed in their
stead by the remaining corporators, or q major.
ity OF them and on receiving the subscriptions
and payments above provided, they, or major
ity of them, shall call meeting of the stock.
holders who, when so met in person or by proxy
shall choose from among themselves President
and six Directors, who shall serve for ore yeal
from their said election, and at all such elections
the persons being stockholders, having MAORI.
ty of all the votes cast shall be elected, and the
said President and Directors so organized and
their successors shall by their bylaws, regulate
the time and manner of holding their elections
provide for filing vacancies caused by death
resignation or otherwise, but no omission t
elect at the period appointed, shall operate as
dissolution of this corporation, and the sale
President and Directors and their successors
shall have and exercise all the powers, privilege
and franchises hereby conferred on, and granted
TO said corporation.
SEC 5. And be it enacted, That the sale
President and Directors, or majority of them
may appoint all such officers, engineers, agents
or servants whatsoever as they may deem ne
cessary for the transaction of the business o
said Company, and may remove them at thei
pleasure; and they, or a majority of them, shall
have power TO determine by contract the com
pensation of all such officers, agents and servants
in the employ of said Company TO determine
the manner of adjusting and settling all account
against said Company the manner of issuing
and transferring, and evidencing the transfer o
stock in said Company and they, or majorit,
of them, shall have power to make alter ant
amend all bylaws which they may deem neces
sary for exercising all the powers vested in sait
Company and for carrying out the objects o
this Act; Provided, That such bylaws shall no
be contrary to the laws Of the State of Maryland
or to any of the provisions of this Act.
SEC. G.. And be it enacted, That the Com
DuHJ nave power 10 construct SllQ railroad
and acquire therefor road bed or space not ex
ceeding eighty feet in Width with one or NOR
sets of tracks, and shall have power to extern
the same within the limits of Hartford county, q
Ear as they shall deem advisable, and for tn
laying ont and constructing said railroad an
such extensions, and the lateral roads or branch
es herein provided for, they shall have all tn
powers, and be subject to all the restrictions an
liabilities hereinafter provided, and to all th
conditions of this Act
SEC. T. And be it enacted That the sal
Company may select for such road or roads tn
route they may DEEM most suitable, and may dt
eide upon and lay out and construct as man
lateral ways from the man-stem, at such poir
or points os they may deem fit, such ways nc
exceeding eighty feet in width, with one or moi
sets of tracks, and the said Company, or IL
said President and Directors, or their agents, :
the persons with whom they may contract ft
making said roads, branches or extensions,
their agents or employees, after purchase or col
BideraIion rs hereinafter provided, may enter VI
on, and use any land that may be wanted ft
the site of said road or roads, or the erection
the warehouses or other buildings and worl
proper and useful for the purposes of said Con
pany and may take and use any earth, tmbe
gravel stone, or other material necessary for Il
construction or repair of any part of said raj
road or its works, and may make and constru
all works necessary and expedent for the pro-
ofc