JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

ber of bonds with said treasurer or to withdraw said bonds
entirely and substitute bonds of a different kind in their place;
if the said company or companies owning said bonds shall
fail, within ten days from the receipt of a notice from the
treasurer to that effect, to alter, increase the number of said
bonds on deposit, or substitute bonds of a different kind in
their places, as the Board of Public Works may order, then
the said company or companies shall be treated as being in
default, and shall be subject to all the penalties imposed on
said companies tor doing business in this State without
depositing the proper securities with the said treasurer, as
now or hereafter provided by law.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1900.

CHAPTER 213.
AN ACT to incorporate the Columbia Telephone and Tele-
graph Company.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Andrew D. Jones, David M. Newbold, Lloyd L.
Jackson, Charles A. Webb and William N. Fisher, their suc-
cessors and assigns, are hereby created and constituted a body
corporate under the name of the Columbia Telephone and
Telegraph Company, and by that name shall have perpetual
succession, and shall be capable to sue and be sued, complain
and defend in any court of law or equity; to make and use a
common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure; to receive and
make deeds and contracts; to acquire by purchase or in any
other manner not inconsistent with law, and deal with any
property, real, personal or mixed, which may be necessary or
proper to enable said corporation to carry out its operations
and fulfill the purposes named in this Act, and generally to do
every other act and thing not inconsistent with law which
may be necessary or proper to promote the objects, designs
and purposes for which this corporation is formed.

Columbia

Telephone and
Telegraph Co.
Incorporated .

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said
body corporate shall consist of three thousand shares of the
par value of twenty-five dollars each, and when the par value
of any share shall have been fully paid, the holders thereof
shall not be in any way liable to the creditors of the corpora-
tion; and said body corporate shall have the right to increase

Capital stock.