WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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bly, entitled " An Act to Incorporate the Baltimore

Steam Packet Company," passed at the December

session, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, chapter

three hundred and twenty-eight, and also by the

act passed at January session, eighteen hundred and

fifty-six, chapter fifteen, be and the same are hereby

continued in full force for the period of forty years

Corporate

from the passage of this act, and until the end of

rights contin-
ued.

the session of the General Assembly which shall

convene next thereafter, and with full power to said

corporation to acquire, purchase, hold and dispose of

the stocks, bonds or obligations of other corporations.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said corporation

shall have full power to enlarge its capital stock,

when advisable in the opinion of a majority of its

stockholders, and to issue bonds or other evidences

Enlarge capi-
tal stock.

of debt to such an extent and in such form as may

be approved of by a majority of its stockholders,

and the same to secure by mortgage or otherwise ;

said increase of stock, however, not to exceed in

amount the sum of two million and five hundred

thousand dollars.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the principal of-

fice of said corporation shall be in the city of Bal-
timore, or at such other place as the President and

Location of
principal office

Board of Directors shall from time to time designate.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall

Effective.

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 15, 1882.

Chapter 40.

AN ACT to give the sanction of the General As-

sembly of Maryland to a certain bequest in the

last will and testament of Matilda Shafer, late

of Frederick county, deceased, to the Evangelical

Lutheran Church of Frederick.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That sanction is hereby given to
the bequest of fifty dollars to the Evangelical Luthe-

Sanction given
to bequest.

ran Church of Frederick, of which Rev. George