EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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Theodore Mottu & Co., the sum of eight dollars and twelve

cents; Thomas D. Cassell, the sum of twenty-six dollars and

sixty cents ; Wm. Thomas, the sum of two dollars ; Henry Seim

& Co., the sum of five dollars and twenty-five cents; Robert

J. Tumbleson, the sum of thirty-five dollars.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 317.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Howard Production

Company of Howard County, and to change the name of

said company by omitting the words "of Howard County."

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

land, That the corporate name of the Howard Production

Change of
name of a

Company of Howard County be and the same is hereby

corporation.

changed by omitting from said name the words "of Howard

County;" and that said Howard Production Company shall

possess the power to search, mine, excavate, dig and bore

for any substance containing radioactive energy, and to erect,

maintain and operate suitable plants for extracting and pro-

ducing radium ; and generally to conduct such scientific re-

search, exploitation, experimentation, mining, boring, smelting,

manufacturing and other industrial operations as may be

deemed by said company requisite in order that radium may

be most advantageously and economically recovered, extracted

and produced; and that said company is hereby granted per-

Granted per-

petual existence and succession, to conduct its business, to carry

petual exist-

on its operations, and to exercise its powers, privileges and

ence.

franchises; and that said company may from time to time issue

as full paid and non-assessable its slock or any increase or

increases thereof in payment for lands or other property, at

valuations agreed upon, and those accepting said stock or their

successors in the ownership or possession thereof shall not be

or become liable to any assessment whatsoever on account of

stock so issued, and the issuance thereof by the duly authorized

officers of the said company shall be conclusive as to value re-

ceived therefor by the said company; and that said company

may from time to time make and issue its negotiable bonds

Negotiable

of the denomination and to the number by it determined and

bonds.

secure the same by a mortgage or mortgages upon all or any

part of its property, real, personal and mixed, and franchises

situated in or out of this State, whether possessed at the time