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JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
Morgan, Ann Barnes, John H. Short, Hislip & Jefferson, James
Smith, James Reyburn, Michael Diffenderffer, Joseph Blackwood,
D. A. Smith, Thomas Welsh, Stuart & Bolton, Dobbin,
Murphey & Bose, John Fallon, William Street, Lewis Gross,
junior, J. T. Hoogewerff, Thomas P. Levy, Henry Webb,
Nicholas Hiss, James Heden, James Hindman, Ford & Parker,
H. W. Bool, junior, W. Cook, Margaret Peterson, T. Gallaway,
Geddes & Stewart, Edward Priestly, Jacob Daley, A. Stever,
H. Niles, R. H. Douglass, Keyser & Schaefer, Charles
Difenderffer, Isa Littler, L. Kimball, Benjamin G. Benson,
Reverdy Johnson, Isaac N. Toy, Henry Millar, John Fitzgerald,
John Hanna, junior, William Hanna, Henry G. Jacobson,
George W. Fitzgerald, John Manly, Anthony Keenan, L. Eichilberger,
McFadon & Harris, Richard Butler, Josiah Lee &
Co. Robert Leslie, Sarah Ann Brown, Richard Griffith, G. C.
Stiles, E. F. Stiles, William Stiles, Hester Stiles, Jane Stiles,
Thomas G. Atkinson, R. H. Moale, Henry McArdle, Henry
Barickman, Joseph Gales, junior, Richard White Thompson,
T. Reilly, Thomas & James Fassitt, George McDowell, J.
Hurst, William Swain, John Lewis, George Huffugle, Daniel
Saint John Adams, Lewis Rush, Enoch Allen, Henry Apple,
W. S. Hathaway, Isaac Durrell, Neville & Jake, Henrietta Milter,
Samuel & William Meeteer, their associates, successors
and assigns, be, and they are hereby created and made a corporation
and body politic, by the name, style and title of the Pennsylvania,
Delaware and Maryland Steam Navigation Company,
and by that name, style and title, shall have perpetual succession,
and shall be able and capable in law to sue and be sued,
to plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, in any court
of law or equity; to make, have and use a common seal, and the
same at pleasure to change, alter and renew, and generally to
do all such acts as shall be proper and necessary for the purpose
of establishing and conducting a line or lines of steam
boats, vessels and stages, or other carriages, between Philadelphia
and Baltimore, for the conveyance of passengers and transportation
of merchandize and other articles. |
