Incorporation
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Thomas Kenset, S. B. Col-
well, R. Fowler, A. A. Perry, Glendi Stineart, J.
F. Wiley, Michael Roach, J. B. Brinkley, W. T.
Markland, Wm. Thompson of R., Geo. Colton,
A. P. Gorman, Z. Poteet and the subscribers to
the stock of the Company, be and they are hereby
declared to be a body politic and corporate by the
name and style of the "Commerce Insurance
Company of Baltimore," and by that name shall
have perpetual succession and be capable in law to
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer
and be answered, defend and be defended in all
courts of law and equity or elsewhere, to make and
use the common seal, and the same to alter or re-
new at pleasure, and generally to do and perform
all things relative to the objects of this institution
which now is or may be lawful for any individual
or body politic or corporate to do.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock
of this Company shall consist of a sum not exceed-
ing four hundred thousand dollars, divided into
forty thousand shares of ten dollars each, two dol-
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