CHAPTER 268.

AN ACT to incorporate the Baltimore Warehouse
Company.

Passed Mar.
19,1867.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That Thomas Kenset, William
E. Hooper, Samuel M. Shoemaker, J. Wesley
Guest, William H. Stewart, L. W. Ridgely,
Edwin Walters, William H. Allen, Thomas W.
Bevan, F. W. Bennett, George M. Bokee, Joseph
Dorsey and their associates, and all other persons
who may be holders of the stock hereinafter men-
tioned, are hereby constituted a body politic and
corporate, by the name of the Baltimore Ware-
house Company, for the purpose of owning, leasing,
holding, erecting and maintaining docks, bulk-
heads, piers, basins and warehouses, and for carry-
ing on the business of warehousemen and for-
warders within the limits of the port of Balti-
more; the corporation hereby created shall exist
for twenty-five years, with power to sue and be
sued, to make and use a common seal, and alter
the game at pleasure.

Incorporated.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the corporation
hereby created in and by their corporate name
shall have power in and about the prosecution of
their aforesaid business to hold and acquire any
real or leasehold estate or personal property, and
the same from time to time to sell, assign, trans-
fer, convey or otherwise dispose of, but this corpo-
ration is hereby expressly prohibited from buying
or selling any goods, wares or merchandise, or
other property, as dealers or on commission, and
from engaging in the business of forwarding
goods, wares and merchandise, or other property
from port to port, or from place to place.

Business pre-
scribed.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said corpo-
ration is hereby authorized to receive and collect
the usual and customary rates of dockage, wharf-
age, storage and lighterage for the use of their
docks, quays, wharves and warehouses, and the
machinery or elevators therewith connected, or
the lighters by them employed, together with all
the charges and expenses incurred for labor or

Rates of
wharfage, &c.