EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 2. Be it enacted. That on and after April 15, 1906, no
common carrier shall refuse to receive at any station, wharf

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or stopping place, a quantity of milk, cream, buttermilk or
skim-milk in a unit of two (2) gallons, three (3) gallons, five
(5) gallons, seven (7) gallons, or ten (10) gallons, or groups
of these units.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That any breach of this law shall
be deemed a misdemeanor and the common carrier shall be
fined fifty (50) dollars for the first offense and one hundred
dollars (100) dollars for each succeeding offense.

Approved April 9, 1906.

CHAPTER 473.
AN ACT to incorporate the " Chesapeake Bank of Balti-
more."
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Unlawful to
refuse to
carry milk,
etc.

Misdemeanor.

land, That James H. McClellen, James Brunt, H. B. Owens,
F. Bernard Aikin, Alexander Stern and Thomas Wright, all
of Baltimore city, and the subscribers to the stock, and their
successors and assigns, be and they are hereby created a
body corporate, by the name of " Chesapeake Bank of Balti-
more," 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 to use a common seal,
and to alter the same at its pleasure; to make and adopt
by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of said
body corporate and its officers, provided the same shall not
conflict with the Constitution and laws of this State or of the
United States; to elect directors, and generally do, execute
and enforce all and singular such acts, contracts, matters
and things as may be necessary to carry out the objects and
protect the interests of said body corporate, and to exercise
the powers of this Act conferred upon it.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock of

Body
corporate.

said body corporate shall consist of one thousand shares of
the par value of twenty-five dollars each. The said body
corporate shall not, however, undertake the prosecution of
its business until the stock shall have been fully subscribed
and paid for, at which time the stockholders may elect
twenty directors, or a less number of directors, not less than

Capital stock.