WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 755

	CHAPTER 484.
	AN ACT to amend an act of January session, eigh-
	teen hundred and fifty-three, chapter one hundred
	and thirty-seven, entitled "An act to incorporate
	the 'Patapsco Company,'" by authorizing the
	Patapsco Company to convert its capital stock
	from twenty-five thousand shares, of one hundred
	dollars each to one hundred thousand shares of
	twenty-five dollars each.
	WHEREAS by section two of the act of the General
	Assembly of Maryland, passed at January session,
	eighteen hundred and fifty-three, chapter one hun-	Preamble.
	dred and thirty-seven, incorporating the Patapsco
	Company, its capital stock is limited to twenty-five thousand shares, of one hundred dollars each.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That the Patapsco Company be
	and it is hereby authorized to convert its capital
	stock into one hundred thousand shares of twenty-
	five dollars each, and upon the surrender of out-
	standing certificates of its stock, as at present con-
	stituted, to issue in place thereof certificates for new	Convert capi-
	shares of twenty-five dollars each, in the proportion	tal stock.
	of four shares of the latter for one share of the
	former; provided, however, that this act, and the
	power hereby granted, be accepted, and the con- version of stock hereby contemplated be ratified by
	a majority in interest of the stockholders, at a special
	meeting, of which public notice, stating tho time,
	place and object thereof, shall have been previously
	given by advertisement, inserted in two daily news-
	papers of Baltimore city twice a week for two weeks.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall	Effective
	take effect from and after the date of its passage.
	Approved April 10, 1880.