JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 363.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
four of Chapter one hundred and two of the Acts of eighteen
hundred and ninety-six, entitled an "Act to provide for the
formation of Farmers' Institutes in the State of Maryland,
and to appropriate a sum of money therefor."

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section four of Chapter one hundred and two of
the Acts of eigteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled an "Act
to provide for the formation of Farmers' Institutes in the State
of Maryland, and to appropriate a sum of money therefor," be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Farmers'
Institutes
in the
State of
Maryland.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the sum of four thousand
dollars per annum be and the same is hereby appropriated for
the formation and support of Farmers' Institutes in this State;
and that the Comptroller be and he is hereby authorized
to issue his warrant annually upon the Treasurer of the State
for the said sum of money out of any fund not otherwise
appropriated; that the said sum shall be payable to the order
of the Maryland Agricultural College on or after the ist of
October of each fiscal year, and that the first yearly payment
shall be made during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1900.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 364.
AN ACT to incorporate "Shreve & Company, Incorporated."

Appropriation

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Arthur L. Shreve, Oswald L. Shreve, L. Carroll
Miller, Thomas D. Temple and George W. Miller, and all
other persons who shall hereafter become stockholders of the
corporation hereby incorporated, shall be and are hereby made
and constituted a body corporate, by the name of Shreve &
Company, Incorporated, and by that name shall have suc-
cession and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded, in any court whatever, and may have and use a
common seal, may alter and renew the same at pleasure.

Shreve & Co.
Incorporated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said
corporation shall consist of one hundred and fifty shares of
the par value of one hundred dollars each, aggregating fifteen
thousand dollars, with the privilege to said corporation to in-

Capital stock,
with privilege
of increasing.