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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

months, or may be both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion

Penalty for
violations.

of the court; and for every subsequent offense shall, upon

conviction as aforesaid, be fined not less than fifty dollars, and

be also confined in the county jail or the Maryland House of

Correction for not less than six months nor more than one

year; but if any such liquors, medicated bitters or alcoholic

compounds be sold or disposed of on Sunday or to any minor,

the party or parties so offending, on conviction as aforesaid,

shall, for every such offense, be fined not less than fifty dollars

and confined in the Maryland House of Correction for not less

than six nor more than twelve months.

4C. That all Acts or parts of Acts not inconsistent herewith

shall remain in full force and effect, and all Acts or parts of

Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

4D. That this Act shall take effect from the date of its pas-

sage.

Approved April i, 1904.

CHAPTER 224.

AN ACT to incorporate the Century Trust Company.

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

The Century

land, That Charles P. Coady", John K. Shaw, Jr., William L.

Trust Com-
pany.

Cooney,William H. Weeden, William J. McBride, William

B. Nicholas, and all other persons who shall hereafter become

stockholders in the company hereby incorporated, shall be a

body corporate by the name and style of "The Century Trust

Company," and by that name shall have perpetual succession and

sue and be sued in any court whatever.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said

Capital stock

company shall consist of five hundred shares at one hundred

of the same.

dollars each, and the said corporation shall have the privilege

to increase the same from time to time by vote of the majority

of the stockholders at a special meeting or meetings to be called

for that purpose, and the incorporators, or a majority of them,

named in this Act, shall have power to open books of sub-

scription at such times and places as they may deem expedient,

and they shall have power to compel all subscribers to said

stock to subscribe and pay therefor at par, or at such sum above

par as they may decide ; and when all of said five hundred

shares shall have been subscribed, and when fifty per centum

thereof has been paid in, the stockholders may elect twenty-five

directors, to serve until the ensuing annual election, or until