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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 158.

AN ACT to add a further Supplement to An Act
to Incorporate the Weverton Manufacturing
Company, passed at December Session, eighteen
hundred and thirty-four, chapter one hundred
and forty-four, appointing certain persons Di-
rectors, and regulating the time and place of
holding the first meeting of stockholders.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, It is represented to this General As-
sembly that the corporation known by the name of
the Weverton Manufacturing Company, chartered
by the General Assembly of Maryland, December
Session, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and
the supplement thereto; after having been duly
organized in accordance with its said charter, went
into active operation and continued to perform the
duties imposed by the said Acts of Incorporation
until about the year eighteen hundred and sixty,
when by reason of the then officers of the Com-
pany living in different States, and the troubles
of the country then existing, incident upon the
late war, and for divers other uncontrolable rea-
sons, the operations of the Company ceased, the
records and seal were mislaid or lost, and the elec-
tion of Directors, as required by the original Act
of Incorporation, has been omitted since the year
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine or
thereabouts; and it is desired that the operations
of the Company may be renewed and again car-
ried on, and there are no officers authorized to call
a meeting of Stockholders for election of Direc-
tors or other purposes, therefore,

Directors.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Marshall Chapman, Henry
F. Bell, George Yeakle, Mason Kindell and George
V. Rex, be and they are hereby appointed and de-

Operations re-
newed.

clared to be Directors of the said, "The Weverton
Manufacturing Company," with all the power and
authority of Directors regularly elected by the
stockholders and subject to all the obligations,

Powers and
penalties.

responsibilities and penalties of the same; and
said Directors shall hold their office until the first