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the payment of the costs of carrying out its pro- visions in the same manner that other county ex- penses are paid. Approved April 4, 1870.		Costs — How paid.
CHAPTER 360.
AN ACT to incorporate the Newtown Gas Light Company.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That W. J. S. Clarke, P. de Mur- ginondo, W. L. Clarke, John R. Hargis, William S. Dickinson, C. C. Lloyd, James Young, and all such persons as shall associate wit.h them by he- coming stockholders, in the manner hereinafter provided, their successors and assigns, are hereby made and constituted a body politic and corporate	Corporation.
by the name, style and title of the Newtown Gas Light Company, and by that name shall have per- petual succession, 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 same, aud 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,	Name and style.
goods and chattels, as may be necessary for carry- ing on the manufacture of, for procuring or col- lecting gas or inflammable air, and preserving, using and distributing the same, as the means of lighting the public and private houses, streets, squares, lanes, alleys and other places in the city of Newtown and its precincts, or carrying on any manufacture necessary for converting to useful purposes the products of any substances which may be employed in making or procuring gas, and for disposing of the same, and such other powers as may be necessary to carry into effect the pur- poses of this Act; provided, the said Company	Gas — Manu- factured.
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 Legislature,	Capital not to exceed.