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Incorporate
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privileges. |
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That William A. Cunningham,
Reuben A. Holmes, Joshua Yingling, Alfred
Trosel, A. R. Durbin, William Lawyer, H. L.
Norris, Dr. J. W. Bering, David H. Shriver, H.
Haines, William Moore, John L. Reifsnider, Will-
iam A. McKellip, Dr. J. L. Warfield, and all such
persons as shall associate with them, by becoming
stockholders in the manner hereinafter provided,
their successors and assigns, are hereby made and
constituted a body politic and corporate, by the
name, style and title of the Westminster Gas-
Light Company, and by that name shall have per-
petual succession, and shall be capable in law to
sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to
answer and be answered, in any Court of law or
equity, to make and use a common seal, and to
alter the same, and generally to do and perform
all such acts, and make all such agreements and
contracts, and to purchase, lease, hold, use and
possess such lands, tenements and hereditaments,
goods and chattels, as may be necessary for carry-
ing on the manufacture of, or procuring, or col-
lecting Gas, or inflamible air, and preserving,
using and distributing the same, as the means of
lighting the public and private houses, streets,
squares, lanes, alleys and other places in the city
of Westminster and its precincts, or for carry-
ing on any manufacture necessary for converting
to useful purposes, the products of any substances
which may be employed in making or procuring
Gas, and for disposing of the same, and such oth-
er powers as may be necessary to carry into effect |
