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Art. 6273. [6421] [4365] MAY PROJECT, ETC., BY 
AMENDMENT.  Any railroad company may, by its original articles of 
incorporation or by its amendments to its charter, project and 
provide for the location, construction, owning and operating of 
branch lines from any point on its main line, or from points on its 
branch line, constructed or projected, to other points making an 
angle of at least twenty-five degrees in the general course from the 
main line, if the branch commence from the same, or from the branch 
line, if it commences at a point on the same;  provided, that the 
same may commence at the terminus of a branch line and continue in 
its general course;  and, may by amendment to its charter, provide 
for the continuation in its general course of the main line.

Acts 1876, p. 142; G.L. vol. 8, p. 978.  Acts 1901, p. 258.                   

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