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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

use or the use of any one, or who shall wantonly release from
any net or weir any fish entrapped therein, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof before
any court or justice of the peace having jurisdiction, shall be
fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars,

Penalty
for violation.

or shall be imprisoned in the House of Correction for not less
than three months nor more than six months, or be both fined
and imprisoned, at the discretion of the court, for each and
every offense; provided, however, that nothing contained in
this Act shall prevent the use during the fishing season of the
year nineteen hundred and the year nineteen hundred and
one of any nets now in use, the meshes of which measure one
and one-quarter inches in the bar.

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

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 488.

AN ACT to incorporate the Patapsco Investment, Guarantee,
Title and Trust Company.

Patapsco
Investment,
Guarantee,
Title and
Trust Co.
Incorporated.

Manner of
doingbusiness.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Theodore Hooper, James E. Hooper, John R.
Dorsey, Joseph A. Bolgiano, Joshua R. Jolly and their asso-
ciates and successors, and all other such persons as shall
hereafter become stockholders in the company hereby incor-
porated shall be and they are hereby constituted a body
politic and corporate by the name and style of the Patapsco
Investment, Guarantee, Title and Trust Company, and by
that name shall have perpetual succession, and be capable in
law to acquire and hold and in anywise dispose of property,
and sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court
whatsoever; to make and use a common seal, and to alter the
same at pleasure, and, generally, to do anything proper to
carry into effect the provisions of this Act, or promote the
object and designs of the company hereby incorporated. The
office of this company shall be in Baltimore City, Maryland.

Capital stock,
with privilege
to increase.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of the
said company shall consist of ten thousand shares of the par
value of one hundred dollars each, being one million dollars,
with the privilege to increase the same from time to time up
to the sum of two million dollars by a vote of two-thirds of
the stockholders at a special meeting, to be called for that
purpose; and the incorporators, or a majority of them, named