ers of any certificates of debt provided for in said
supplement and of any to be created by virtue of
future loans, in said supplement provided for,
shall be entitled to participate and to vote in per-
son, or by proxy, and in voting shall have the
same rights and privileges as the stockholders;
and in estimating the number of votes which any
holders of a certificate shall be entitled to give,
every fifty dollars of the amount held by such per-
son shall be taken and estimated as equal to one

Proviso.

share of the stock; provided always, that no per-
son shall be entitled to vote upon any certificate
which such person shall not have held at least two
months before the election or the meeting of bus-
iness at which his vote may be offered, nor shall
any vote by proxy be received unless such proxy
shall have been created within ninety days next
preceding that on which such vote shall be ten-
dered.

In force.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted. That this Act shall
take effect from its acceptance by the stockholders
of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company
at the next general meeting of the stockholders of
the company, which acceptance shall be certified
to the Governor of this State, under the corporate
seal of the said company.

CHAPTER 205.

Passed Mar
4,1867.

AN ACT to incorporate Howard Lodge, number
thirteen, Independent Order of Good Templars
of Leitersburg, Maryland.

Directors.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That Frederick Bell, Samuel S.
Speck, John W. Nerfor, Franklin Clopper and
James W. Leggett are hereby constituted a board
of directors to manage the affairs hereinafter spe-
cified, until the first Saturday in April, eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, or until their successors