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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

	CHAP. 470	CHAPTER 470. AN ACT to amend the Charter of the United Industries Company of Howard County, enlarging and sanctioning it, and to provide for a change of the corporate name, and for additional directors of said company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- land, That the United Industries Company of Howard County, an existing corporation of the State of Maryland,
	Charter to be amended.	with the right of perpetual existence and succession, may by a vote of a majority in amount of the outstanding stock of the company, at a stockholders' meeting to be held for that purpose, change the corporate name of the said cor- poration without including the name of any county or city therein, and upon recording among the records of Howard county, Maryland, a certificate of such change of corporate name, executed and acknowledged by the president and the secretary of said company, the adoption of such new cor- porate name shall thereupon take effect; that the charter of said company for the uses and purposes set forth in its article of incorporation, with the alterations and amend- ments thereto, is hereby sanctioned, and from and after the passage of this Act the said company shall have the right
	Additional powers granted.	to establish, operate and maintain branch offices, factories and plants, with appropriate instrumentalities, installations and appurtenant facilities, or either or any thereof, for any or all of its uses and purposes pertaining thereto, and to dispose of its products and generally to manage and con- duct its affairs, and to carry on its operations, and to exercise its powers or any or all thereof, in any place or places or adjoining the same in Maryland and through- out said State, and in so far as their laws permit throughout any other State, Territory, District or possession of the United States or in any foreign country; that if, and when said company shall desire to acquire land or other property for or pertaining to its uses and purposes or any thereof, and cannot for any reason acquire the same by agreement with the owner or owners thereof, then, in such case said company is hereby authorized to acquire and hold the same through condemnation proceedings, either in accord- ance and compliance with the law under which it is now authorized to proceed, or with the law as set forth in Sections