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STATE OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 380.

officer shall immediately arrest such party and take him before
the nearest justice of the peace for trial ; provided, that any
land owner may extend the privilege of killing said birds,
game or fish upon his land to whomsoever he pleases during
such parts of the year as the killing of said game is lawful
under this Article ; provided, that the provisions of this
section shall not apply to the Potomac river within the
boundary of said county.

SEC. 2. And Is it enacted. That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 380.
AN ACT to Incorporate the Shippers Bank of Baltimore City.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Body
corporate.

Maryland, That E. Clay Tirnauus, Edward C. Regester,
William F. Stone, William C. Smith and James H. Living-
stone, of Baltimore city, in the State of Maryland, and their
successors in office, be and they are hereby constituted and
made a body corporate and politic under the name and style
of the Shippers Bank of Baltimore City, and by that name
shall have perpetual succession, and be capable in law to hold
and dispose of property ; to sue and be sued in Courts of Law,
Equity and any other place ; to receive and make all checks,
transfers, contracts and conveyances whatsoever; to have and
use a common eeal, and the same to change, alter and renew
at pleasure, and generally to do every other act or thing
necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Act or to
promote the object or designs of said corporation.

Capital stock.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of the
said corporation, intended to be created by this Act, shall be
one hundred thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each,
fully paid up; and privilege is hereby given to said corpora-
tion to increase the capital stock to two hundred thousand
dollars whenever it shall be determined by the board of
directors.

Managed by
board of
directors.

SEC 3. And be it enacted, That the affairs of the said cor-
poration shall be managed by ten directors, who are to be
elected annually in the month of January by the stockholders,
and that the first directors of said corporation shall be elected
by the persons named in the first section of this Act within
ninety days from the date of this Act, said directors thus
first elected to serve until the annual meeting in January fol-
lowing ; said directors shall, within ninety days after the
passage of this Act and annually in the mouth of January