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.