ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 358.

AN ACT to incorporate the Interstate Transportation

and Storage Company of Baltimore city.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That Andrew W. Bostwick, J. Kemp

Incorporation.

Bartlett, Abner Greenleaf, John A. Robb, Wm. L.

Boyd, Thos. H. Tolson, Frank Shipley, C. H. Davis,

Lewis M. Rosenberg, A. H. Wilson and Wm. G.

Hughes, and their associates, successors and assigns, be

and they are hereby constituted a body politic and

corporate, by the name of the Interstate Transporta-

tion and Storage Company of Baltimore city, for the

Interstate
Trails. Co.

purpose of owning, leasing, holding, erecting and

maintaining tanks and other receptacles for holding,

receiving, storing and shipping natural gas petroleum,

both crude and refined, and transporting the same

thereto by any known means of conveyance, and of re-

fining petroleum, and of owning, leasing, holding, erect-

ing and maintaining docks, bulkheads, piers, basins,

refining works and warehouses in connection therewith

and in aid thereof, and other works, erections, fix-

tures, appurtenances and appliances necessary or con-

venient for carrying out any of the said purposes,

with power to sue and be sued, and to have and use a

common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and may

have and exercise all the rights, powers and privileges

provided for in the general incorporation laws of the

State of Maryland, and the supplements and amend-

ments thereto, which may be necessary or convenient

for each and any of the purposes aforesaid; provided,

Proviso.

however, that no power conferred by the provisions of

this act shall be so construed as to interfere with the

harbor of Baltimore city.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said company

may make such by-laws as may be proper or expe-

Make by-laws

dient to enable it to carry on the objects of its incor-

poration, and may at its pleasure alter, amend, add to

or repeal the same; provided, the same shall in no

wise conflict with the constitution and laws of this

state or the provisions of this act, and by such by-laws

Proviso.

the said company may regulate and prescribe in what

manner and form the contracts and obligations of said

company shall be executed, and likewise the mode of

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