FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Company of Baltimore City, a corporation heretofore formed

under the provisions of the general corporation law of this

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State, be and the same is hereby amended, so that said cor-

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poration may, and it is hereby authorized to transact any

business in which electricity over or through wires may be

applied to any useful purpose, and to that end all the rights

and privileges mentioned in section one hundred and eleven

of article twenty -three of the Code of Public General Laws,

title "Corporations" are hereby conferred upon said cor-

poration in Baltimore City as fully and to all intents and

purposes as though such corporation had been formed to

carry on the business in any city or town in Kent or Talbot

Counties, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith

are hereby repealed.

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

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 471.

AN ACT to change the name of the Brooklyn and Curtis

Bay Light and Water Company of Anne Arundel County,

and to amend, define and enlarge the powers of said

company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the name of the Brooklyn and Curtis Bay

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Light and Water Company of Anne Arundel County be

of name.

and the same is hereby changed to that of the " Brooklyn

and Curtis Bay Light and Water Company," and by the

said last mentioned name shall have perpetual succession

and adopt and use a corporate seal and alter the same at

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

and defend in any court of law or equity.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the number of

directors of said company shall be increased from five as

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stated in the certificate of incorporation of said company

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to nine, and that the five directors named in said certificate

shall have the power to elect the additional four required to

fill up said board of nine directors, and said nine directors

shall serve as the directors of said company until the first

day of November eighteen hundred and ninety-two and

until their successors are duly elected and qualified.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock

of said company shall be twenty-five thousand dollars,