Portal:Maryland state laws relating to specific railroads

Year	Link	Chapter	Page	Name	Passed	Description
1827	[1]	123	97	An Act to Incorporate the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company.	February 28, 1827	from the city of Baltimore, to some suitable point on the Ohio river, to be by them determined
1828	[2]	72	63	An act to incorporate the Baltimore and Susquehanna Rail Road Company.	February 13, 1828	from the city of Baltimore to some suitable point or points on the Susquehanna river to be by them determined
	[3]	170	197	An act to authorise the President, Managers and Company of the Washington and Baltimore Turnpike Road, to construct a a Rail Road from the city of Baltimore to the District of Columbia, in the direction of the city of Washington.	March 8, 1828	from Baltimore to the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, as far as such road shall extend through or be situate within this state
	[4]	187	235	An act to incorporate the Elkton and Wilmington Rail Road Company.	March 14, 1828	from some point or place on the Elk river to the town of Elkton, and then on to some suitable point or points on the Christiana Creek, at or near Wilmington, to be by them determined
	[5]	207	268	An act to authorise the New Castle and French Town Turnpike Company, to make a Rail Road from French Town, on Elk River, to the Delaware line, in a direction towards New-Castle.	March 14, 1828	from French Town towards New-Castle the corporate name of the said company shall be, and the same is hereby changed and altered to the New-Castle and French Town Turnpike and Rail Road Company
	[6]	209	273	A supplement to the act, entitled, An act to incorporate the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company.	March 15, 1828	That it shall and may be lawful for the president and directors of the said company, to begin the said rail road at any point within the said city of Baltimore which they may think proper, and to make and extend the said road from such point to the outer limits of the said city
1829	[7]	61	73	A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to Incorporate The Baltimore and Susquehannah Rail Road Company.	February 17, 1829
	[8]	139	147	An Act to Incorporate the Baltimore and Washington Rail Road Company.	February 25, 1829	from Baltimore to the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, as far as such road shall extend through, or be situated within this state
	[9]	193	227	An Act to incorporate the Baltimore and Westminster Rail Road Company.	March 13, 1829	either from the city of Baltimore, or from some suitable point or points on the Baltimore and Ohio, or the Baltimore and Susquehannah rail roads, to be by the president and directors of said company determined, to the town of Westminster, and if said points, on examination, be found impracticable, then the said company to continue the same from thence, to some suitable point or points on the Monocacy river, to be by them determined; and also with the right and privilege of construction and repair of a lateral rail road, commencing at and from some suitable point or points on the Hanover Turnpike Road, or as near thereto as may be found practicable, to be by them determined, and from thence to the main stem of the rail road hereby incorporated, at some suitable point or points thereof, on the Patapsco Falls, to be by them determined
	[10]	198	239	A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to authorise the New-Castle and French-Town Turnpike Company, to make a Rail Road from French-Town, on Elk River, to the Delaware line, in a direction towards New-Castle, passed at December session 1827, chapter 207.	March 14, 1829
1830	[11]	64	392	A supplement to the act, entitled, an act to authorise the New-Castle and French Town Turnpike Company, to make a Rail Road, from French Town, on Elk River, to the Delaware line, in a direction towards New-Castle.	February 9, 1830
1831	[12]	49	50	An Act to authorise the Baltimore and Susquehanna Rail Road Company to construct a lateral Rail Road to Westminster, and for other purposes.	February 7, 1831	commencing at some suitable point upon the main stem, to be by them determined, within ten miles from the city of Baltimore, and extending from thence through or across the town of Westminster, between the following points on the turnpike road; say William Mitten's on the south-east, and Philip Vautz's tavern stand on the north-west end of said town, in Frederick county, to such point or points upon the head waters of the Monocacy river as will form the most convenient, direct and practicable communication between that county and the city of Baltimore
	[13]	117	123	A Second Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to incorporate the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, passed at December session eighteen hundred and twenty-six, chapter one hundred and twenty-three.	February 18, 1831
	[14]	158	164	An Act to promote Internal Improvement by the construction of a Rail Road from Baltimore to the City of Washington.	February 22, 1831	the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company shall... construct, a rail road... from such point or place on that part of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road already constructed and in use, not exceeding eight miles from the city of Baltimore, as the said company may deem most convenient, to the line of this state adjoining the District of Columbia, in a direction towards the city of Washington, along the most direct and suitable route that may be reasonably and conveniently practicable
1832	[15]	104	119	An act to incorporate the Millington and Smyrna Rail Road Company.	February 17, 1832	from some suitable point on the Chester River, near Millington, to some other suitable point on Duck Creek, near Smyrna, in Delaware
	[16]	168	215	An act to Incorporate a Company to be styled the Allegany Coal Mine Rail Road Company.	February 29, 1832	from some suitable point in the Town of Cumberland, to the respective Coal Mines, up the Valley of Wills creek, with lateral ways to the different coal mines, in the discretion of the president and directors, or a majority of them, as may seem most expedient
	[17]	251	313	An additional supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the promotion of Internal Improvement.	March 10, 1832	That the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, be and they are hereby released from the performance of so much of the condition and agreement mentioned in the above recited supplementary act, as requires the president and directors of the said company, so to locate their said rail road, that it shall go into Washington and Allegany counties; and it shall be lawful for the said company so to change the route of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road
	[18]	287	354	An act to Incorporate the Cecil County Rail Road Company.	March 7, 1832	from Port Deposite, in Cecil county, to the Pennsylvania line, over the ridge dividing the waters of the Susquehanna and the Delaware rivers, in a direction towards the Great Valley, in Chester county, in the State of Pennsylvania
	[19]	288	361	An act to incorporate the Baltimore and Port Deposite Rail Road Company.	March 5, 1832	from the city of Baltimore to Port Deposit
	[20]	296	381	An act to incorporate the Delaware and Maryland Rail Road company.	March 14, 1832	from some point at the Delaware and Maryland line, to be by them determined, to Port Deposit, or any other point on the Susquehanna river
	[21]	300	398	An act to Incorporate the Sam's Creek Rail Road Company.	March 14, 1832	commenced at the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, near the mouth of Gillis' Falls, or other eligible place, and run thence so as to reach the valley of Sam's creek, or Pipe creek, at or near the junction of Sam's creek therewith, and thence to, and up the valley of Monococy river, or of some of its tributary streams, to the Pennsylvania line
	[22]	330	458	A supplement to the act, entitled, An act to promote Internal Improvement, by the construction of a Rail Road from Baltimore to the City of Washington.	March 14, 1832
	[23]	R108	503	Preamble and Resolution relative to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.	March 13, 1832
1853	[24]	193	234	An Act to incorporate the Baltimore and Potomac Rail Road Company.	May 6, 1853	from the city of Baltimore, and thence within one mile of the town of Upper Marlborough, in Prince George's county, and as near to said town within the limits of that distance as may be practicable, and by or near the town of Port Tobacco, in Charles county, to a point on the Potomac river, to be selected by the president and directors of the said company hereby incorporated, not higher up than Liverpool point, and not lower down than the mouth of Saint Mary's river, with such branches at any point of said rail road, not exceeding twenty miles in length, as the said president and directors may determine
		431		An act to incorporate the Washington County Rail Road Company.	May 30, 1853
1882		223		An act to authorize the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in the construction of its Philadelphia Branch, to cross other railroads, and to regulate the mode of crossing the Tide-water Canal and the Susquehanna River by said Philadelphia Branch.	April 3, 1882
1884		232		An act supplementary to the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-six, chapter one hundred and twenty-three, entitled "An act to incorporate the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company," and to authorize the construction of Lateral Railroads from its Philadelphia Branch Railroad, and to regulate the mode of condemning property by said Railroad Company.	March 28, 1884
		233		AN ACT supplementary to the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-six, chapter one hundred and twenty-three, entitled "An act to incorporate the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company," and to provide the mode of constructing the Philadelphia Branch Railroad of said company within the city of Baltimore	March 28, 1884