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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 501.

AN ACT to refund to William H. Owens, administrator of

Samuel Owens, deceased, late of Prince George's County,

a certain sum of money erroneously paid into the State

Treasury.

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

Refunding

land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is

money paid
for taxes er-

hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon

roneously.

the Treasurer of this State in favor of William H. Owens,

administrator of Samuel R. Owens, deceased, late of Prince

George's County, for the sum of thirty-five dollars and sixty-

four cents, being the amount of State taxes erroneously paid

by the said Samuel R. Owens, deceased, for the years 1877

to 1892, inclusive ; same having received the recommendation

of the Treasury officials.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 502.

AN ACT to incorporate the Calvert Electric Light and Rail-

way Company.

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

Calvert Elec-

land, That John B. Gray, Thomas Parran, John F. Webster,

tric Light and
Railway Com-

Richard S. Hill and Henry P. Owens and their successors

pany.

and assigns, and all other persons who may hereafter be-

come stockholders in said company, be and they are hereby

constituted a body politic and corporate under the name and

style of the Calvert Electric Light and Railway Company,

and by that name shall have perpetual succession and shall

be able to sue and be sued, defend and be defended, plead

and be impleaded, answer and be answered in all courts of

the State or elsewhere, in law or in equity ; to have and to

use a corporate seal and to alter and renew the same at

pleasure and otherwise in all things to do, execute and perform

all such acts and make all such agreements and contracts

as may be necessary for the purpose and within the scope

of its business.

Right to in-

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

crease capita

company shall be one hunderd thousand dollars, divided into

two thousand shares of the par value of fifty dollars each,