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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Elect com-
missioners.

six months preceding any election, and all white
male citizens residing in Somerset County, and
owning real estate within the limits of said town,
shall, on the third Monday in June in each year,
elect three persons to be Commissioners of the
town as aforesaid ; white male citizens who have
resided in the State one year and six months within
said town limits to be eligible only as Commis-
sioners of said town.

In force.

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

Approved March 30, 1868.

CHAPTER 319.

AN ACT to incorporate the Provident Life and
Trust Company of Baltimore.

Incorporation

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Benjamin T. Hynson, G. Fred.
Maddox, Edward Hanzsche, Lewis Turner, Wil-
liam Carmichael, James S. Waters, W. H. Per-
kins, John T. Ford, James S. Forbes, George H.
Berry, Aaron Hoffman, James S. Downes and
John M. Browne, their associates, successors and
assigns, shall be and they are hereby incorporated
as a body politic, under and by the name of the
"Provident Life and Trust Company of Baltimore."
and by that name shall have perpetual succession,
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, make
and use a common seal, and the same to break,
alter and amend at pleasure, when, and as they
may think proper, and exercise and enjoy all the
rights, privileges and immunities of and apper-
taining to a body politic and corporate.

Insurance.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the business of
the said corporation shall be to make insurance on
the lives of individuals, and accidents by travel,