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CHAPTER 209.
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AN ACT to incorporate the Prince George's county abstract com-
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pany.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of Maryland,
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That Charles H. Stanley, Benjamin D. Stephen, Robert V. Hall,
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William Stanley and Pilmore Beal, of Prince George's county,
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Maryland, and the subscribers to the stock of the corporation
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hereby created and their successors and assigns be and they are
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hereby created a body corporate by the name of the "Prince
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George's County Abstract Company," and by that name shall have
succession and shall be capable in law to receive, hold and dispose
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Body cor-
porate.
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of property, to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded in any
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court of law or equity; to make, have and use a common seal,
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and the same to break, alter and renew at its pleasure; to make
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by-laws for the government of said body corporate and its officers ;
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provided the same shall not conflict with the constitution and the
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laws of this State, or of the United States, and generally to do
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and execute all and singular such acts, matters and things as may
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be necessary to carry out the objects of said body corporate.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said body
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corporate shall consist of five hundred shares of the par value of
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fifty dollars each, which may be increased to a sum not exceeding
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one thousand shares of the par value aforesaid, at any time with
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Capital
stock.
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the consent of two-thirds of the stockholders; five dollars shall
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be paid in cash on each share at the time of subscribing, and the
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remainder in such instalments as the board of directors shall de-
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termine and require and under such penalties as the by-laws of
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said body corporate shall prescribe.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the persons named in the first
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section of this act be and they are hereby appointed commissioners
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to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said body corporate,
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and they may, should they see fit, cause books to be opened at
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such time and place as they may direct for the purpose of receiv-
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Commis-
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ing such subscriptions, and may keep the same open until the
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sioners.
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whole number of shares mentioned shall be subscribed for; but
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when ten (10) thousand dollars of stock shall have been subscribed
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and the first payment made thereon, then the subscribers may pro-
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