ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 585

CHAPTER 330.
AN ACT to incorporate the Towsontown Gas Light Company.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That O. P. Macgill, R. Grason, Hy. L. Bowen, J. I. Fisher, Lewis Wheeler, Grafton Bosley, P. de Murguiondo and all such persons as shall associate with them, by becoming stockhold- ers, in the manner hereinafter provided, their suc- cessors and assigns, are hereby made and consti- tuted a body politic and corporate, by the name,	Incorporation
style and title of the Towsontown Gas Light Com- pany, and by that name shall have perpetual suc- cession, and shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to answer and be answered, in any Court of Law or Equity, to make and use a common seal, and to alter the	Name.
same, and generally to do and perform all such Acts, and make all such agreements and contracts, and to purchase, lease, hold, use and possess such lands, tenements and hereditaments, goods and chattels, as may be necessary for carrying on the manufacture of, for procuring or collecting Gas, or inflamable Air, and preserving, using and dis- tributing the same, as the means of lighting the public and private houses, streets, squares, lanes, alleys and other places in the town of Towsontown and its precincts, or for carrying on any manufac- ture necessary for converting to useful purposes,	Powers.
the products of any substance, which may be em- ployed in making or procuring Gas, and for dis- posing of the same, and such other "purposes as may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes of this Act; provided, the said Company shall not possess or hold at any one time, real and personal estate together, above the value of one hundred thousand dollars, without the consent of the Legis- lature.	Gas.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the seven per- sons first above named, or a majority of them, may cause books to be opened at such time and places as they may direct, giving public notice thereof, for at least twenty days, in some news- paper printed and published in Baltimore county,	Open books.