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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1870
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ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 605

CHAPTER 345.

 

AN ACT to incorporate the Salisbury Gas Light
Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That James Cannon, Elishu E. Jack-
son, Purnell Toadvine, Samuel A. Graham, John
O. Freeny, Pde Murguiondo, John Wills, J. P.

 

Harris and Henry J. Davidson, and all such per-
sons as shall associate with them, by becoming
stockholders in the manner hereinafter provided,
their successors and assigns, are hereby made and
constituted a body politic and corporate by the

Incorporation

name, style and title of the Salisbury Gas Light
Company, and by that name shall have perpetual
succession, and shall be capable in law to sue and
be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to answer and
be answered in any court of law or equity ; to
make and use a common seal, to alter the same,
and generally to do and perform all such acts, and
make all such agreements and contracts, and to
purchase, lease, hold, use and possess such lands,

Name and
style.

tenements and hereditaments, goods and chattels,
as may be necessary for carrying on the manufac-
ture of, for procuring or collecting gas or inflam-
mable air, and preserving, using and distributing
the same, as the means of lighting the public and
private houses, streets, squares, lanes, alleys and
other places in the town of Salisbury and its pre-
cincts, or for carrying on any manufactory neces-
sary for converting to useful purposes the products
of any substance which may be employed in mak-
ing or procuring gas, and for disposing of the
same, and such other purposes as may be necessary

Powers.

to carry into effect the purposes of this Act; pro-
vided, the said Company shall not possess or hold
at any one time real and personal estate together
above the value of one hundred thousand dollars,
without the consent of the Legislature.

Capital.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the nine per-
sons first above named, or a majority of them,
may cause books to be opened at such time and
places as they may direct, giving public notice
thereof for at least twenty days, in some news-
paper printed and published in Wicomico County,

Open books-
notice given.

 

 

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