E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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tried under the act of last session, entitled, an
act to
authorise the commissioner of the land office to issue
patents for lands in certain cases, and enlarging the
powers of said commissioner, and be entitled to demand
and receive from the parties subject to the same, the
costs thereof, as also the transcript of the record thereof
to the court of appeals.
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SEC. 7. And be it enacted,
That it shall be the duty
of the commissioner of the land office to record all certificates
that may be hereafter returned to the land
office, and issue patents thereon as soon as they are
ready for patents.
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To record all
certificates.
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SEC. 8. And be it enacted,
That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
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In force.
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CHAPTER 416.
AN ACT to Incorporate the Werner Mining Company.
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Passed May
30, 1853.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Evan T. Ellicott, Henry Webster,
Philip T. Tyson and John S. Morris, and their associates,
successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby
incorporated and made a body politic and corporate, by
the name of the Werner Mining Company, and by
that name to have perpetual succession, and a common
seal, with power to acquire, hold, sell and transfer,
estate real and personal, and to exercise and enjoy all
the rights, powers and privileges usually enjoyed by
bodies politic and corporate, and also the power to make
and establish rules, by-laws and regulations for their
own government, the same not being repugnant to any
law of this State or of the United States.
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Incorporated.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That the objects of said
corporation shall be the mining and smelting of ores
and minerals, and trading therein.
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Object of corporation.
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SEC. 3. And
be it enacted, That the capital stock
of said corporation shall not consist of less than one
hundred thousand dollars, not more than five hundred
thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of ten
dollars each; and the shares of said capital stock shall
be made assignable or transferable, as may be provided
for by the by-laws of said company, and shall be considered
personal property.
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Capital stock.
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