ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 357

CHAPTER 210.
AN ACT to Incorporate the Baltimore and Gal- veston Steamship and Warehouse Company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That William T. Walters, Thomas
P. Williams, Samuel M. Shoemaker, Horatio D. Whitridge, Wernel Dresel, William E. Hooper, George Small, James G. Ramsey and John Wells Hanson and such other person, or persons, who may with them, or their successors, shall hereafter shall become members of this association shall be and they are hereby constituted and declared a body corporate and politic by the name and style	Incorporation
of the Baltimore and Galveston Steamship and Warehouse Company of Baltimore with perpetual succession and by that name shall be capable in law of acquiring, holding and disposing of pro- perty, real, personal and mixed, and may buy and sell, rent and lease, charter and hire, build and	Name and style.
cause to be built and repaired ships, steamers, lighters, boats and other vessels, wharves, docks, depots, elevators, warehouses, cotton presses and such other buildings and works as they may deem proper, and employ the same in the various branches of business for which they were designed, they shall have and use a common seal which they may alter and renew at pleasure. And in their corpo- rate name may sue and be sued, answer and defend	Object,
in all Courts of law and equity, and may make, execute and deliver, or cause to be made, executed and delivered to them, all deeds or papers in due form of gifts, grants, transfers, conveyances, cove- nants, contracts and agreements whatsoever, that may and shall bo for the use and purposes of the said Company.	Powers.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Com- pany shall have power to charge and collect such rates of compensation as may be customary in the City of Baltimore and elsewhere, or as shall be fixed by any contract or agreement for the use of their ships, steamers, lighters, boats, or other ves- sels, wharves, docks, depots, elevators, warehouses, cotton presses and such other buildings or works and other property, which may be owned by, or	Charge and collect.