ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 520.

AN ACT to refund to Charles E. Wooters, late collector of State

taxes for Talbot county, certain sums of money erroneously

paid by Mm into the treasury.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the comptroller of the treasury be and he is hereby author-

ized and directed to issue his warrant upon the treasurer of this

State in favor of Charles E. "Wooters, late collector of State taxes

To repay.

for Talbot county, in the sum of one hundred and twenty-seven

dollars and ninety-four cents, being the amount over-paid by him

into the treasury for the years eighteen hundred and eighty-four

and eighteen hundred and eighty-five, the same having received

the recommendation of the treasury officials.

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

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 522.

AN ACT to incorporate the Hemsley's creek oyster planting com-

pany.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That William E. Lowe, James H. Caulk, Prank G. Wrightson,

Joshua G. "Wrightson and James Seth, their associates and suc-

cessors, be and they are hereby constituted and made a body cor-

porate under and by the name of the Hemsley's creek oyster

planting company, and by said name shall have perpetual suc-

Body cor-
porate.

cession and may by said name sue and be sued, and may have and

use a common seal and the same may alter and renew at pleasure,

and also to ordain, establish and put in execution such by-laws

and regulations as shall seem necessary for the government and

management of said corporation, and to alter and repeal the same

at pleasure, and shall have and exercise all the rights, powers and

privileges which corporate bodies may lawfully possess for the

purposes mentioned in this act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the purposes of said corpora-

tion shall be the propagation, planting, cultivating and farming

Object.

of oysters in the waters of Talbot county only, in this State, but

shall only extend to such coves, inlets and creeks as shall be less

than one hunrded yards in width at their mouth.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of such cor-

poration shall be ten thousand dollars, to be divided into one

Capital
stock.

thousand shares of the value of ten dollars each, and as soon as