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the value thereof, the same to be under the oath of such per-

son, to be administered by one of said assessors or by one of

said Commissioners, as the case may be.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 25, 1904.

CHAPTER 139.

AN ACT to incorporate the Agriculturist Commercial Storage

Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Agriculturist

land, That Arthur Wegefarth, Albert F. Bruiner, William P.

Commercial
Storage

Ward, Henry S. Mancha and Frank L. Hancock, and their

Company.

associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby

created a body corporate and politic by the name of the Agri-

culturist Commercial Storage Company, and by that name have

perpetual succession, with power to sue and be sued, to plead

and implead, to make, have and use a common seal, and change

the same at pleasure, and to have and enjoy and may exercise

all rights, powers and privileges incident and necessary to the

purposes of said corporation, as created by this Act, and those

now or which shall hereafter be set forth in the Code of Public

General Laws of the State of Maryland, under the title "Cor-

porations."

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said corporation shall be

To purchase

authorized and empowered to purchase, sell and deal in, procure

and sell live
stock, meats,

and prepare for market, transport, store and preserve, by re-

produce, lum-

frigeration or other processes, all kinds of live stock, meats,

ber, etc.

fish, oysters, produce, fruit, seeds and other products, also

timber, lumber, ice, and in general to carry on a general whole-

sale, retail, mercantile, manufacturing, refrigerating and stor-

age business, and with power to buy, lease, rent, hold, sell,

mortgage or make any other disposition of real and personal

property in the State of Maryland and elsewhere, and to make

contracts and agreements with the State of Maryland and the

various counties, cities, villages, towns or corporations and in-

dividuals in said State, under and by virtue of the power and

authority now or hereafter vested in said State, counties, cities,

villages, towns, corporations and individuals to contract and

Build and

agree, and to perform all things proper to carry out the pur-

maintain
warehouses,

poses of said corporation in this State and beyond the State,

etc.

and to erect buildings, warehouses and structures, and to fur-