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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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sickness, at the rate at from two to eight dollars
per
week; and that doubts have been entertained whether
the certificates of health insurance issued by said company
come within the provisions of the act of eighteen
hundred and forty-five, chapter three hundred and
sixty-six, taking policies of Insurance as therein provided;
and also that such tax, if enforced against said
company, would impair, if not prevent its active and
useful organization; Therefore,
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Not subject
to act of 1845,
ch. 360.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the certificates or policies of health
insurance issued or to be issued by the Franklin Health
Insurance company of Baltimore, are hereby declared
not to be subject to the provisions of the act of eighteen
hundred and forty-five, chapter three hundred and
sixty-six, entitled, an act taxing policies of insurance.
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Power conferred.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That the said Franklin
Health Insurance company shall have power to add to
each policy of insurance issued by them, a provision
for the payment of any sum not exceeding five hundred
dollars, as a funeral benefit for the family or friends
of deceased members.
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Passed May
31, 1853.
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CHAPTER 434.
AN ACT to incorporate the Maryland and Georgia
Commercial and Manufacturing company.
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Incorporated.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That William Chesnut, Charles B.
White, John S. Brown, William Davison, Thomas G.
Canby, Samuel Kramer, A. K. Mantz, John Wesley
Kramer, George M. Smith and Samuel Barnet, their
associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby
created a corporation and body politic by the name
of the Maryland and Georgia Commercial and Manufacturing
company, and by that name shall have perpetual
succession, and shall be capable to sue and be
sued in any court of law or equity in this State, or the
United States, or any or either of the States, or in any
other place whatsoever, to have and use a common
seal, and alter the same at pleasure, to establish by-laws
for the organization, conducting and regulating the
said company and its business and affairs, and to change
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