ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 807

Barnum, Nathaniel W. Paynter, Alexander J. Marshall and Charles E. Brown, and all and every other person or persons who, with them or in their stead, shall hereafter become members of the Amer- ican White Lead Company, in the manner herein- after mentioned, their successors and assigns, shall be and are hereby created and declared to be a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the	Incorporation
American White Lead Company, and by that name shall and may have perpetual succession, and be capable in law of purchasing, holding, improving and disposing of property, real, personal and mixed, for the purposes hereinafter authorized, and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and defend in all courts of law and equity, and may make, execute and deliver, or have or	Name and style.
cause to be made, executed and delivered to them, all deeds, transfers, gifts, grants, conveyances, covenants, contracts, agreements and bargains, whatsoever, necessary for the purposes and objects of the said Company, and may have and use a common seal, which they shall have power to alter or renew at pleasure, and generally to do every other act or thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions, objects and purposes of this Act, and not inconsistent with the laws of this State or the United States.	Powers.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the purposes and objects for which the American White Lead Company aforesaid, is incorporated, are to acquire by purchase or otherwise, letters patent, covering methods for the manufacture of carbonate of lead, and for other purposes, and also holding by pur- chase, lease or otherwise, real estate on which to erect factories and machinery for the purpose of manufacturing, and to manufacture and dispose of articles manufactured, or to dispose of rights to use said letters patent, and to do all other things ne- cessary to carry out the objects of this corporation.	Objects.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Logan W. Maupin, Alien S. Barnum, Nathaniel W. Paynter, Alexander J. Marshall and Charles C. Brown, or such one or more of them as the others, or a majority of them, shall for that purpose au- thorize and appoint, may take and receive sub- scriptions to the capital stock of said Company in	Subscriptions.