EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 599.

AN ACT to incorporate The Riverton Telephone Company.

SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Isaac S. Bennett, T. Rodney Taylor, Benjamin R

Gravenor, John E. Taylor, J. O. Adams, Wm. T. Darby, Atlas

O. Bradley, C. Henry Cooper, and Wm. F. Bradley, and all

The Riverton

subscribers to the stock of the corporation hereby created, and

Telephone
Company.

their successors and assigns, be and they are hereby created a

body corporate by the name of The Riverton Telephone Com-

pany, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and

shall be competent to sue and be sued in any court of law or

equity; to have and to use a common seal, and to alter the

same at its pleasure; to make and adopt by-laws for the gov-

ernment of said body corporate and its officers not inconsistent

with the laws of this State or the United States ; and that the

office of said company shall be located at Riverton, Wicomico

County, Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Isaac S. Bennett,

T. Rodney Taylor, Benj. P. Gravenor, John E. Taylor, J. O.

Adams, Wm. T. Darby, Atlas O. Bradley, C. Henry Cooper

and Wm. F. Bradley be and are hereby constituted a board of

Board of di-

directors of said corporation, with authority to organize as

rectors.

such by electing a president, secretary and such other officers

as, in their judgment, may be necessary for the proper man-

agement of the affairs of said company. They shall serve one

year from the passage of this Act, or until their successors

shall be elected and qualified.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That a general meeting of the

stockholders shall be held annually on the first Monday in

. Meetings to be

May, at a place to be designated by the president, at which

held an-
nually.

meeting a board of nine directors shall be elected to serve one

year, or until their successors shall be elected and qualified ; and

the said directors shall elect from their number a president,

secretary and treasurer (the two last-named offices may be held

by one and the same person), and such other officers as they

may deem necessary; said officers to hold office one year or

until their successors are elected. All elections for directors

Elections for

or officers shall be by ballot; each share of stock shall entitle

directors.

the holder to one vote, which may be cast in person or by

proxy.