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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Duty of company.
Proviso.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted,
That it shall be the duty
of said company, to transmit all despatches in the order
in which they are received, under the penalty of one
hundred dollars, to be recovered with costs of suit, by
the person or persons whose despatch is postponed out
of its order as herein prescribed; Provided however,
that arrangements may be made with the proprietors or
publishers of newspapers, for the transmission for the
purpose of publication, of intelligence of general and
public interest, out of its regular order.
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Company subject
to provisions
of
other acts.
Banking forbid.
Reservation.
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SEC. 5. And be it enacted,
That the said company
shall have the benefit of, and be subject to the provisions
of the several acts passed to incorporate and provide
for the incorporation and regulation of telegraph
companies in this State, so far as the same may not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this act; and that
this corporation shall not be permitted to issue any note,
token, device, scrip or evidence of debt to be used as
currency; and that the Legislature reserves to itself the
right to alter, change or amend this act of incorporation
at pleasure.
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Passed April
26, 1853.
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CHAPTER 137.
AN ACT to incorporate the Patapsco company.
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Incorporated.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John D. Godman, Francis Hoover,
Edward Moon, Hiram Kaufman, Henry Knell, William
L. Rusk, Samuel J. Pentz, Thomas J. Rusk, George
Levering, James P. Thomas, Marcus Wolf, William
Carmichael, Jesse D. Kaufman, and all and every other
person or persons hereafter becoming members of the
Patapsco company, in the manner hereinafter mentioned,
their successors and assigns shall be, and they are
hereby created and made a corporation and body politic,
by the name and style of the Patapsco company, and
by that name shall and may have perpetual succession,
and be capable in law of purchasing, holding, improving
and disposing of property, real, personal or mixed,
to the extent in the manner and for the purposes herein
authorised, and may sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded, answer and defend, and be answered and
defended, in all courts of law and equity, and may
receive and make all deeds, transfers, instruments of
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