EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1906.

CHAPTER 731.

AN ACT to incorporate the Easton Life Insurance Com-
pany of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Alexander Fountain, J. McFaddin Dick, Lewin

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W. Wickes, John H. Jones, Jr., Robert F. Duer, Charles R.
Wooters and George W. Wilson and the subscribers to the
stock of the corporation hereby created, and their successors
and assigns be and they are hereby created a body corporate,
by the name of the Easton Life Insurance Company of
Maryland, and by that name shall have perpetual succession,
and shall be competent to sue and be sued in any court of
law or equity whatever; to have and use a common seal,
and to alter the same at its pleasure, and to make and adopt
a constitution and by-laws for the government of said body
corporate, and its officers, agents, and employes, and from
time to time amend the same; provided, such constitution,
by-laws or amendments thereto shall not conflict with the
constitution and laws of this State or the United States; to
elect or appoint directors and officers, and generally to do,
execute and enforce all and singular such acts, contracts,
matters and things as may be necessary to carry out the
object and purposes and to protect the interests of said body
corporate, and to exercise the power or powers by this Act

Body
corporate.

conferred upon it; the office of this corporation shall be
located in Easton, Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said
body corporate shall consist of one thousand shares of the

Location of
office.

par value of one hundred dollars each, with the privilege
to increase the same from time to time by a vote of the
stockholders at a special meeting or meetings, to be called
for the purpose, to a sum not exceeding five million dol-
lars; and the incorporators, or a majority of them, named
in this Act shall have power to open books or subscriptions
at such times and places in the town of Easton and else-
where as they may deem expedient, and they shall have the

Capital stock