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CHAPTER 354.
AN ACT to add two additional Sections to the thirtieth Article of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled, "Crimes and Punishments," relating to killing cattle.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That one section be added to the thirtieth Article of the Code of Public General Laws relating to Crimes and Punishments, as fol- lows: Every person convicted of wilfully and maliciously stabbing, killing or destroying any bull, steer, cow, heifer, or calf, not the property of such person, and not in the act of trespassing on his enclosures, shall undergo confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than four years.		Penalty for killing.
Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the day of its passage. Approved April 4, 1870.		In force.
CHAPTER 355.
AN ACT of incorporation of the Howard Mutual Life Insurance and Trust Company of Baltimore.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That John R. Cox, Jacob H. Tay- for, Thomas F. Troxel, William H. Trego, John C. Bridges, P. Forney Spear, Samuel H. Geisey, John J. Abrahams, George H. Berry, James G. Ramsey, Oliver A. Parker, James Rodgers, jr., their associates and successors, and all others who may hereafter become members of this Company,	Incorporation
as hereinafter provided, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the Howard Mutual Life Insurance and Trust Company, of Baltimore, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, appear, prosecute and defend suits to final judgments and execution, in any courts	Name.
in this State or elsewhere; may have a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and may pur- chase and hold and convey all such property, real,	Powers.