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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 succession 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 increased, by the president and directors to be elected as hereinafter provided for, to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars.

Open books.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the persons hereinbefore 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 subscription to said stock there shall be paid at the time