LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

June, and shall compel the settlement of all claims for taxes
in full on or before that date.

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SEC. 2. And e it enacted. That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2, 1896.

CHAPTER 199.

AN ACT to extend the privileges and enlarge the powers of
the Shannahan and Wrightson Hardware Company of Talbot
County, a corporation duly incorporated under the General
Laws of this State.

Effective.

WHEREAS, The Shannahan and Wrightson Hardware Com-
pany of Talbot County was duly incorporated on the 3d day of
March, 1896, under the provisions of the General Laws of this
State, and Chapter 599 of the Acts of 1894, relating to the
creation and regulation of incorporated companies in the State
of Maryland, with a capital of twenty-five thousand dollars
($25,000), divided into two hundred and fifty (250) shares of
the par value of one hundred dollars ($100) each, for the pur-
pose of conducting a wholesale and retail mercantile business,
and for the purpose of extending the privileges and enlarging
the powers of said company; therefore

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Shannahan and Wrightson Hardware Company
of Talbot County, in addition to the powers possessed by it
under its certificate of incorporation, shall have and possess the
further powers, rights, privileges and franchises particularly
mentioned in this act, and that its charters as set out in said cer-
tificate shall be altered and amended so as to conform to the
terms and provisions of this act.

Further
powers.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said corporation shall have
perpetual succession, and shall be capable to sue and be sued,
complain and defend in any Court of Law or Equity; to make
and use a common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure; to
receive and make deeds and contracts; to acquire by purchase
or in any manner take, receive, hold, use, employ, manage,
mortgage, dispose of, or in any manner not inconsistent with
law, deal with any property, real, personal or mixed, and situ-
ated in or out of this State, which may be necessary or proper

Corporate
powers of
company.