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CHAP. 301.
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CHAPTER 301.
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Passed April 4,1836
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An act to Incorporate the Talbot County Silk Company.
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Preamble
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WHEREAS, it has been represented to this General
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Assembly, that sundry citizens of Talbot county here-
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inafter named, are desirous to form an association for
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the culture of Silk, under the name, style and title of
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the Talbot County Silk Company, and with a view of
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facilitating their operations, have applied for an act of
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incorporation, with a capital stock of five thousand
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dollars: — Therefore,
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Incorporated
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Maryland, That Theodore R. Loockerrnari, James Par-
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rott, John M. G. Emory, Alexander Graham, Thomas
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C. Nicols, Mary G. Nicols, Almira Scull, William K.
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Lambdin, Lambert W. Spencer, Samuel Roberts, Ro-
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bert Hamill, Edward Stuart, Thomas J. Earickson,
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Philip F. Thomas, William H. Hayward, Joseph Gra-
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ham, Charles Robinson, Thomas H. Dawson, and
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Henrietta M. Francis, and such other persons as may
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hereafter become stockholders in the said company,
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shall be, and are hereby created a body politic and
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corporate, under the name, style and title of the Tal-
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Style
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bot County Silk Company, and by the same name, style
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and title, shall have succession, and shall be able to
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sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in the courts
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of law and equity of this State, and elsewhere, and the
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said company is hereby authorised to make and esta-
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blish a common sea], and the same to break, alter or
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renew at pleasure.
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Directors to act
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the persons now cho-
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sen directors by the members of this company, to wit:
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Theodore R. Loockerman, James Parrott, Samuel
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Roberts, Thomas H. Dawson, John M. G. Emory,
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Thomas C, Nicols, Robert Hamill, shall continue to
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act as such until the first Monday of January, in the
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Time of election
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year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, at which pe-
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riod, or as soon thereafter as may be convenient, the
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said company shall elect, in the manner which shall be
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Seven directors
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prescribed in the by-laws, hereafter to be enacted, se-
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ven directors for the succeeding year, and so on in each
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