THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

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CHAPTER 126.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, an Act to in-
corporate The Maryland Mutual Insurance Com-
pany of Baltimore, passed by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, session eighteen hundred and
fifty-eight, chapter three hundred and eighty-
three, by changing the name and increasing the

powers of said Company.

Passed Feb.
8, 1866.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That section one of an Act entitled,
an Act to incorporate the Maryland Mutual Insur-
ance of Baltimore., passed by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, session eighteen hundred and
fifty-eight, chapter three hundred and eighty-
three, he and it is hereby so amended that the
name of the said corporation shall be the Maryland
Insurance and Security Company, instead of the
Maryland Mutual Insurance Company.

Name chang-
ed.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That section three of
an Act entitled, an Act to incorporate the Mary-
land Mutual Insurance Company of Baltimore,
passed by the General Assembly of Maryland,
session eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, chapter
three hundred and eighty-three, be and the same
is hereby so amended, that said Company shall
have liberty to increase its capital stock to any
sum not exceeding one million dollars, in the man-
ner provided in said Act, for increase of said, capi-
tal to any sum not exceeding five hundred thou-
sand dollars.

Amended,

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Com-
pany shall have power to guarantee the payment,
punctual performances and collection of promisso-
ry notes, bills of exchange, contracts, bonds, ac-
counts, claims, rents, annuities, mortgages, choses
in action, evidences of debt, and certificates of
property or value, and the titles to property, real
or personal, upon such terms as may be establish-

Payment gua-
ranteed.

ed by the board of directors of said Company; to
receive upon storage, deposit or otherwise, mer-
chandise, bullion, specie, plate, stocks, bonds,
promissory notes, certificates and evidences of debt,
contracts or other property, and to take the man-
agement, custody and charge of real or personal

Storage