JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 395

CHAPTER 251.
AN ACT to incorporate the Green Serpentine Mar-
ble Company of Harford county, Maryland.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly	.
of Maryland, That Abraham P. McCombs, Enoch McCollough, Joseph L. McDaniel and William Scot-
len, of Maryland, E. Mortimer Bye, of Delaware,
Delaplain McDaniel and Thomas Baumgardner, of	Corporation
Pennsylvania, their associates, successors and as-	created
signs, be and they hereby are created a body corpo-
rate, by the name and style of the Green Serpentine
Marble Company of Harford county, and by that
name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be	Powers.
capable in law to hold and dispose of property, real,
personal and mixed, fee simple or leasehold, to sue
and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, and answer
and defend, and be answered and defended, in any
court of law or equity, and in any other place what-
soever; to receive and make deeds, to make con-
tracts, to have and use a common seal, and renew,
alter and change the same at pleasure; to ordain and
establish such by-laws, ordinances and regulations
as may appear necessary for regulating the concerns
of said corporation, not being contrary to this act
or to the constitution and laws of this State or of
the United States, and to do all such acts and things
as shall be necessary and proper for the quarrying,
mining, manufacturing, transportation and sale of
Serpentine Stone, or any stone or mineral substance
to be quarried or mined in Harford county, State of
Maryland.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock
of this corporation be two hundred and fifty thou-	Capital stock.
sand dollars, divided into five thousand shares of
fifty dollars each, and the said corporation shall have
power at any time to increase its capital stock to
any sum not exceeding one million dollars, by new
subscriptions or by converting a portion of the net
profits into new stock, and distributing the same
among the stockholders, according to their respec-
tive interest in said corporation, and may reduce the	Reduce capi-
capital stock of said corporation whenever the same	tal stock.