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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in all cases in which the

Compensation
for legal ser-

punishment may be death, the compensation of said attorney

vices.

shall be the sum of fifty dollars; in all cases of assault with

intent to kill or rape, the compensation of said attorney shall

be twenty dollars, and in all other cases the compensation of

said attorney shall be ten dollars, to be levied by the county

commissioners of Prince George's County at their regular

annual levy, and in no case shall any compensation be allowed

unless a plea of not guilty be entered and the case regularly

tried before and decided by the court or jury.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 15, 1904.

CHAPTER 59.

AN ACT to incorporate the Eastern Shore Poultry Farm

Company.

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

Incorporation
of a poultry

land, That Claud M. Powell, Virgil F. Ward, Walter S.

farm.

Sheppard and Wade T. Porter, all of Wicomico County, State

of Maryland, and Howard U. Clogg, of the City of Balti-

more, and State aforesaid, all citizens of the United States,

and their successors, and all persons who may become here-

after members of the corporation to be created by this Act.

are hereby created and declared to be a body corporate, by

the name, style and title of "The Eastern Shore Poultry

Farm Company, " and by the same name to have perpetual

succession, and shall be capable to sue and be sued, complain

and defend in any court of law or equity, to make and use

a common seal, and to change the same at will, to receive and

make deeds and contracts, to acquire by purchase, or other

manner, take, hold, use, employ, manage, mortgage, dispose

of, or in any other manner not inconsistent with, deal with any

property, real or personal or mixed, and situate in or out of

Its objects, de-

this State, which may be necessary or proper to enable said

signs and pur-

corporation to carry on its operations or fulfil the purposes

poses.

named in this Act, and generally to do every other thing, not

inconsistent with law, which may be necessary or proper to

promote the objects, designs and purposes of its incorpora-

tion, which are hereby declared to be for the purpose of oper-

ating a farm devoted to the raising of chickens and such other

and all kinds of poultry and eggs, or other products thereof