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ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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Chapter 147.
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AN ACT to incorporate The Eastern Shore Telephone
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Company.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
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of Maryland, That Benjamin T. Winchester, William
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E. Temple, James Bordley, William W. Busteed, W.
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Hopper Gibson, P. H. Feddernan, junior, Louis Her-
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gemather, Oswald T. Hemsley, John O. Phillips,
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Appointed
commissioners .
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Samel Ringgold, William H. Cockey and James B.
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Bright, and their successors, be and they are hereby
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appointed commissioners to take subscriptions to the
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capital stock of the Eastern Shore Telephone Com-
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pany, hereby incorporated, and they, or a majority of
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them, may cause books to be opened at such time and
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places, and for such period or periods, upon giving
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notice as they may deem expedient, of the time and
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Open books.
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places of opening the same; and if any of such com-
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missioners shall die, resign or refuse to act, another or
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others may be appointed in his or their stead, by a
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majority of the remaining commissioners.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the subscribers to
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said stock, their successors and assigns, shall be and
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they are hereby declared to be incorporated into a
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Company in-
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company by the name of The Eastern Shore Tele-
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corporated.
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phone Company, and by that name shall be capable
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in law of purchasing, holding, selling, leasing and
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conveying estates and property, real, personal and
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mixed, so far as may be necessary to carry out the
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objects of said body corporate; to sue and be sued ;
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to plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or
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equity; to make, have and use a common seal, and
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the same to break, alter and renew, at their pleasure ;
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to make by-laws for the government of said body
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corporate and its officers, provided the same shall not
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Make by-laws
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conflict with the constitution or laws of this state, or
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of the United States; and generally to do and execute
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all and singular such acts, matters and things as a
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corporation or body politic may and can lawfully exe-
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cute, and all such matters and things as may be
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necessary to carry out the objects of said body corpo-
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rate.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the capital stock
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of said company shall not exceed ten thousand dol-
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