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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

terms and conditions of consolidation, the amount of capital
stock agreed upon, the name of the consolidated company,
and the names of the board of directors for the first year, shall
be executed and signed and acknowledged before any one
authorized to take acknowledgments by all of said directors
of the new company, and said certificate shall then be
recorded with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City, and be filed in the office of the Secretary of State.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1900.

CHAPTER 211.

AN ACT to incorporate the "United Real Estate Company
of Baltimore."

United Real
Estate Co.
of Baltimore.
Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That W. L. Haworth, Howard P. Sadtler, Harry E.
Jackins, J. Hooper Edmondson and James E. Ingram, Jr.,
and their associates, successors and assigns, and all other
persons who may hereafter become stockholders in the com-
pany, hereby incorporated, shall be and are hereby consti-
tuted a body corporate by the name and style of United Real
Estate Company of Baltimore, and by that name shall have
perpetual succession, and be competent to sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded, in any court whatever; to make and
use a common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure, and
generally to do, execute and enforce all and singular such
acts, contracts, matters and things as may be necessary to
carry out the objects and purposes, and to protect the inter-
ests of said body corporate, and to exercise the powers by
this Act conferred upon it, and for that purpose shall have
the right to establish and maintain branch offices or places of
business in the City of Baltimore.

Capital stock.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital of said company
shall be ten thousand dollars, divided into one hundred shares
of stock of the par value of one hundred dollars each, with
the privilege to said company, in its discretion, to increase or
decrease the same, in the same manner as now provided for
the increase or decrease of the capital stock of corporations
incorporated under the General Incorporation Laws of the
State of Maryland; and the above-named incorporators are
hereby constituted directors of said company, to serve until