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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the county courts
in their discretion
may appoint intermediate terms between the common law
terms in the respective counties for the transaction of business on
the equity side of the court, to which said terms process shall be
returnable, as well as to the stated terms of the court. |
Act declared permanent.
* Ch. 94. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the act, entitled,
An additional
supplement to the act, entitled, An act respecting the equity jurisdiction
of the county courts, passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and fourteen*, to which this is a further supplement, be
and the same is hereby declared to be permanent. |
| Repeal. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every thing contained
in the
said additional supplement repugnant to, or inconsistent with, the
provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
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Passed Jan. 25, 1816. |
CHAP. CLXIV.
An Act to Incorporate the Baltimore Exchange Company. Lib.
TH.
No. 5, fol. 24. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS, William Patterson, and others, chairman
and trustees
of the Baltimore Exchange Company, in behalf of themselves,
and others, proprietors of stock in the said company, have petitioned
this general assembly, setting forth that sundry persons, by
articles of voluntary association, have contracted and agreed, each
with the other, to erect for the purposes of commercial utility, a
public building in the city of Baltimore, called The Baltimore Exchange,
and praying that an act may pass to incorporate the
stockholders of the said company; |
| Subscribers incorporated. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
William Patterson, Robert Goodloe Harper, Dennis A. Smith,
John Oliver, Thomas Tenant, Robert Smith, Henry Payson,
Henry Thompson, Thomas Sheppard, George P. Stevenson, Isaac
McKim and John Hollins, and their associate subscribers to the
stock of the Baltimore Exchange Company, and their successors
and assigns, shall be and are hereby constituted a body politic and
corporate, by the name of The Baltimore Exchange Company,
with perpetual succession, and power to sue and be sued, and to
have and use a common seal, and that the stock of said company
shall be divided into shares of two hundred dollars each. |
President and directors
to be elected
annually. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the conducting
the affairs of
the said company, there shall be a president and twelve directors in
the said company, to be stockholders, and to be chosen by the
stockholders on the first Monday in April next, and on the first
Monday in April in each year and every year thereafter, and to
continue in office for one year, and until successors be chosen;
that in making all such elections, every stockholder shall give one
vote for each and every share by him or her held, and may vote by
proxy; and that the said election in April next shall be held under
the direction of the chairman and directors of the Baltimore Exchange
Company, and all subsequent elections under the direction
of the president and directors of the Baltimore Exchange Company,
for the time being. |
To make by-laws,
rules, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president
and directors,
and their successors, shall have power to make all necessary by-laws,
rules and regulations, for the government of the said company,
and for the conducting of its business; to appoint all officers and |
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