| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
William Chandlee, John Donn, J. W. Dallam, John Donahoo, Edward
Griffith, J. W. Giles, Howes Goldsborough, John Green,
William Green, Samuel Hughes, Edward Hall, James C. Hughes,
Benedict Hall, Christian Hoffman, John D. Henly, Nathan Ball,
John H. Hughes, Abraham Jarrett, John Millkoff, John Merryman,
John McHenry, Mark Pringle, Isaac Perryman, William W.
Ramsay, R. C. Stockton, Charles S. Sewell, R. and W. Sappington,
John Stump, (of Cecil,) Robert Y. Stokes, William T. Stockton,
William Schlatter, Robert Smith, Samuel R. Smith, James F.
Sears, Paca Smith, A. J. Thomas, J. W. Thomas, William Williams,
and Henry Hall, and such others as may from time to time
become subscribers of said corporation, their successors and assigns,
shall be and they are hereby created and made a corporation
and body politic, by the name and style of The Havre-de-Grace
Ferry Company, and by that name shall be and are hereby made
able and capable in law to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy
and retain, to them and their successors, lands, tenements, hereditaments,
goods, chattels and effects, of what kind soever, not exceeding
in the whole the amount or value of fifty thousand dollars,
and the same to grant, demise, alien, or dispose of; to sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and
be defended, in any courts of record, or any other place whatsoever;
and also to make, have and use, a common seal, and the same
to break, alter and renew, at pleasure; and also to ordain and establish,
and put in execution, such by-laws, ordinances and regulations,
as shall seem necessary for the government of said corporation,
not being contrary to law or the constitution thereof, for
which purpose general meetings of stockholders shall and may be
called by the directors, or two thirds of the stockholder, previously
giving two months notice in two or more newspapers of this
state. |
1817.
CHAP. 151. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the affairs of
said company shall
be managed by five directors, to be chosen from among the stockholders
on the first Monday of May in each and every year, who
shall have power to make, revise, alter or annul, rules, orders, by-laws
and regulations, for the government of the company, who
shall also have power and authority to appoint a treasurer, or any
other officers that may be necessary for the management or superintendance
of their concerns, and to allow to said treasurer, or other
officers, such reasonable salary as to them shall seem proper; and
generally to do all acts and things that may be necessary for said
company, provided they are not contrary to the law or the constitution,
or to the by-laws, rules and regulations, established by the
stockholders at their general meetings. |
Company to be
managed by five
directors—their
powers. |
