Chap. 100.—An ACT in relation to the Peninsula Railroad Company.
Approved February 14, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the Penin-
sula Railroad Company, organized under an act of the gen-
eral assembly of this state, approved March twelve, eighteen
hundred and seventy-eight, be and hereby is authorized and
empowered, under any arrangement already made, or to be
hereafter entered into, to consolidate as one corporation with,
or to receive a conveyance of, the railroad property and
rights of the Worcester and Somerset railroad company,
organized by an act of the Maryland legislature of March
twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, extending from
the Eastern Shore railroad in Maryland, southerly towards
the Virginia state line, and which passed by foreclosure to
the bondholders of said company, as recited in an act of said
legislature of Maryland, passed April ten, eighteen hundred
and eighty, which act changed the name of said company to
the Peninsula railroad company, and also authorized said
railroad to be connected and consolidated with any Virginia
railroad extending to said line, on terms not inconsistent with
the constitution and laws of Maryland; and upon such union
and consolidation, or said conveyance being effectually made,
said Peninsula railroad company may hold, own, extend,
complete, manage, and operate said railroad in Maryland, or
an extension thereof, as a part and parcel of its own line, as
contemplated in and by said Maryland act of April ten, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty.
2. Said Peninsula. railroad company may exercise all the }
powers conferred by section five of said act of March twelfth, 3
eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, by including in one }
mortgage the whole line of its road, from its commencement ¢
in Maryland to its southern terminus in Virginia; and said
company may also issue its capital stock in shares of one
hundred dollars, instead of fifty dollars, as in said act pro-
vided, and may increase such capital stock, but not to exceed
in all two million five hundred thousand dollars.

3. Said Peninsula railroad company, when consolidated, »
may change the name of said corporation to the New York, }
Philadelphia, and Norfolk railroad company: provided that p
said railroad company shall have its principal office within
the borders of this state: and provided further, should said
railroad company consolidate with any other railroad or rail-
roads, that the road so consolidated shall also have its prin-
cipal office within this state, and shall always be subject to
the laws of the commonwealth of Virginia, and shall have
the right to sue and shall be liable to be sued in the courts of
this commonwealth, and amenable to the process of its
courts.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage. c

Chap. 100.—An ACT in relation to the Peninsula Railroad Company.
Approved February 14, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the Penin-
sula Railroad Company, organized under an act of the gen-
eral assembly of this state, approved March twelve, eighteen
hundred and seventy-eight, be and hereby is authorized and
empowered, under any arrangement already made, or to be
hereafter entered into, to consolidate as one corporation with,
or to receive a conveyance of, the railroad property and
rights of the Worcester and Somerset railroad company,
organized by an act of the Maryland legislature of March
twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, extending from
the Eastern Shore railroad in Maryland, southerly towards
the Virginia state line, and which passed by foreclosure to
the bondholders of said company, as recited in an act of said
legislature of Maryland, passed April ten, eighteen hundred
and eighty, which act changed the name of said company to
the Peninsula railroad company, and also authorized said
railroad to be connected and consolidated with any Virginia
railroad extending to said line, on terms not inconsistent with
the constitution and laws of Maryland; and upon such union
and consolidation, or said conveyance being effectually made,
said Peninsula railroad company may hold, own, extend,
complete, manage, and operate said railroad in Maryland, or
an extension thereof, as a part and parcel of its own line, as
contemplated in and by said Maryland act of April ten, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty.
2. Said Peninsula. railroad company may exercise all the }
powers conferred by section five of said act of March twelfth, 3
eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, by including in one }
mortgage the whole line of its road, from its commencement ¢
in Maryland to its southern terminus in Virginia; and said
company may also issue its capital stock in shares of one
hundred dollars, instead of fifty dollars, as in said act pro-
vided, and may increase such capital stock, but not to exceed
in all two million five hundred thousand dollars.

3. Said Peninsula railroad company, when consolidated, »
may change the name of said corporation to the New York, }
Philadelphia, and Norfolk railroad company: provided that p
said railroad company shall have its principal office within
the borders of this state: and provided further, should said
railroad company consolidate with any other railroad or rail-
roads, that the road so consolidated shall also have its prin-
cipal office within this state, and shall always be subject to
the laws of the commonwealth of Virginia, and shall have
the right to sue and shall be liable to be sued in the courts of
this commonwealth, and amenable to the process of its
courts.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage. c