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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 129.

AN ACT to incorporate the Baltimore County Gas
Light Company.

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That G. C. Hicks, O. H. Hicks, William
E. Mali, John Ewell, D. Hagerty, Andrew Banks,
Thomas Summerville, and James H. Bond, and
their associates, successors and assigns, be and they
are hereby created and made a body corporate, by
the name and style of the Baltimore County Gas
Light Company, and by that name shall have suc-
cession and shall be capable in law to hold and dis-

Powers.

pose of property, to sue and be sued, to plead and
be impleaded, to answer and defend, and be an-
swered and defended, in any court of law or equity,
and in any places whatsoever; to receive and make
deeds and contracts, to make and have and use a
common seal, and the same to break, change, alter,
and renew at pleasure, and to pass all such by-laws
as may be necessary to regulate its affairs, and to do
all such acts as shall be proper and necessary for the
purpose of their incorporation and no further, and
shall have perpetual succession by said corporate
name.

Capital stock,

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
. the said company, hereby incorporated, shall be two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in shares of ten
dollars each, which said capital stock may be in-
creased, by the president and directors to be elected
as hereinafter provided for, to an amount not ex-
ceeding five hundred thousand dollars.

Open books.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the persons herein-
before named as incorporators, may cause books to
be opened at such times and places in Baltimore
city as they may direct, after giving at least twenty

Give notice.

days public notice thereof by publication in at least
two newspapers printed in Baltimore county and
two in Baltimore city, for the purpose of receiving
subscriptions to the capital stock of said corporation.

Subscription.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That upon every sub-
scription to said stock there shall be paid at the time