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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 616.
AN ACT to amend an Act of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, passed at the January session in the year eighteen
hundred and sixty-five, Chapter one hundred and seventy-
two, entitled an "Act to incorporate the Warren Manufac-
turing Company of Baltimore County."

Warren
Manufacturing
Company of
Balto. City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Act passed at the January session of the
General Assembly or Maryland in the year eighteen hundred
and sixty -five, Chapter one hundred and seventy-two, entitled
an "Act to incorporate the Warren Manufacturing Company
of Baltimore County,' be and the same is hereby amended by
adding thereto an additional section, to follow immediately
after Section eight, and to be known as Section 8 A.

May change
par value of
shares of
capital stock,
etc.

SEC. 8A. And be it enacted, That the par value of the shares
of the capital stock of the said corporation may be, at any
time hereafter, changed to and made one hundred dollars per
share by a vote, in person or by proxy, of the owners of not
less than two-thirds of all the said shares in meeting duly
assembled; provided, that the board of directors of the said
corporation shall publish a notice, signed by at least a majority
of them, in some newspaper published in Baltimore County,
in which county the principal office of said corporation is
located, once a week for at least four successive weeks before
the time fixed for holding said meeting, and shall send or
deposit a written or printed copy thereof in the postoffice,
addressed to each stockholder or member of said corporation
at his usual place of residence, at least three weeks previous
to the day named therein for holding such meeting. The
said notice shall specify the object of the meeting, the time
and place where such meeting shall be held. If at any meet-
ing so called and held as aforesaid, the vote of two-thirds of

If ratified by
shareholders,
president shall
make and
swear to cer-
tificate, etc.

all the shares of stock of said corporation shall be cast, in
person or by proxy, in favor of making the par value of the
said shares one hundred dollars, the president of the said
corporation shall make out, sign and swear to a certificate,
setting forth the proceedings of said meeting, and shall file
the said certificate, so signed and sworn to, for record in the
office of the Clerk of Circuit Court for Baltimore County,
within thirty days after said meeting; and the proper officers
of the said corporation may, at any time thereafter, upon the
surrender of outstanding certificates of stock of the par value
of one thousand dollars, issue in lieu thereof new certificates.