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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said levy court,
or a majority
of them, are hereby empowered and directed, after any sale
made as aforesaid, to execute a deed of conveyance to the purchaser
or purchasers of warehouses and public ground sold as aforesaid,
and when the same shall be recorded as other deeds are, the
same shall be valid and effectual to pass to the purchaser or purchasers,
all the right, title and interest of the county, in and to the
same. |
1811.
CHAP. 142.
And to convey
said property. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all reasonable
expenses incurred
in making any sale as aforesaid, shall be levied on said county. |
Expenses to be levied
on county. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
the duty of the levy
court in said county to meet for the purpose of appointing inspectors
of tobacco as heretofore, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Levy court not to
meet to appoint
inspectors. |
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CHAP. CXLIII.
An Act to incorporate a Manufacturing Company in Talbot County,
on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Lib. TH.
No. 3, fol. 172. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1812. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Edward Lloyd, Samuel S. Dickinson, William Meluy, William E.
Seth, Robert Moore, Lambert Reardon and John Kemp, be, and
they or any three of them be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners,
with full power and authority to open or cause to be
opened, books for receiving and entering subscriptions for raising
a capital stock not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, in shares of
twenty-five dollars each, for the purpose of manufacturing woollen,
linen and cotton cloths. |
Commissioners
appointed
to open
books for subscriptions. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or
any three or more of them, shall open said books at some convenient
place, by them to be appointed, in the town of Easton, in Talbot
county; the times and manner of entering and securing such subscription
to be fixed upon by said commissioners, or any three or
more of them, to be advertised by them at least six weeks before
said subscriptions shall be taken, in one or more papers published
in the town of Easton. |
Books to be opened
at Easton. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever one thousand
shares
of the said stock shall be subscribed for, all persons who may then
be, or thereafter may become the actual proprietors of shares in
the said capital stock, either as subscribers for the same, or as the
legal representatives, successors or assignees of such subscribers,
shall be and they are hereby made and erected a body politic and
corporate, by the name and style of The President and Directors of
the Manufacturing Company of the Eastern Shore of Maryland;
and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and
do and suffer all acts, matters and things, which a body politic and
corporate may lawfully do and suffer. |
Stockholders incorporated
when 1000 shares are
subscribed. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever the said
one thousand
shares shall be subscribed for, that then commissioners aforesaid,
or any three or more of them, shall, by giving at least six
weeks notice thereof in one or more newspapers published in the
town of Easton, call a meeting of the said stockholders, in the town
of Easton, for the purpose of electing from amongst the stockholders,
seven directors, three of whom shall reside in the town of
Easton, and the remaining four in Talbot county; which election |
Election of directors. |
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