LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SECTION \. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the name of the Brooklyn Water and Light Com-
pany of Anne Arundel County, a body corporate duly incor-
porated under the General Incorporation Laws of Maryland,
be and the same is hereby changed to that of the Brooklyn
Water and Light Company, and by such last-mentioned name,
shall have perpetual succession, and may, by said name, sue
and be sued, and may have and use a common seal, and the
same may alter and renew at pleasure, and also to ordain,
establish and put in execution such by-laws and regulations as
shall seem necessary for the government and management of
said corporation, and to alter and repeal the same at pleasure,
and shall have and exercise all rights, powers and privileges
which corporate bodies may lawfully possess for the purposes
mentioned in this act.

Change ot
name.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Franklin Mewshaw,
Lewis Grieneisen, Franklin P. Anderson, Herman Stoll and
John H. Geis, the five incorporators and directors named in
the certificate of incorporation, filed in the clerk's office of the
Circuit Court for Anne Arundel county, shall serve as directors
of said company until the first day of March, 1897, and until
their successors are duly elected and qualified.

Directors.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock of
eaid company shall be twenty thousand dollars ($20,000),
divided into eight hundred shares, at the par value of twenty-
five ($25) dollars each, which may be increased to an amount
not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000); any
increase in said capital stock to be approved by a majority of
the stockholders of said company in general meeting, called by
the directors of said company after fifteen days' public notice
of said meeting, by two or more insertions in one of the daily
newspapers published in Baltimore city; and at all elections
and on all questions, every stockholder shall have one vote for
each share owned by him or her, and may vote either in per-
son or by proxy.

Capital stock.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That said company shall have
power to manufacture and sell in Brooklyn and its vicinity in
Anne Arundel county, electricity and gas for illuminating pur-
poses, and for all other purposes to which electricity or magne-
tism or gas may be applied, and may contract for the purchase
or hire of the same as may be for the benefit and advantage of
said company; and said company shall also have power to dig
such artesian or other wells, contract and build such works and

Hay sell gas,
electricity,
etc.