ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

J. Alexander Preston, Charles Glaser, Francis
H. Hambleton, Dr. Gustavus W. Lehmann and

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Daniel C. Heddinger, and all other persons who
shall hereafter become stockholders in the com-
pany hereby incorporated, their successors and
assigns, be and they are hereby created a body
corporate by the name and style of "The Crema-
tion Company," of Baltimore city, and by that
name may sue and be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded in any court whatever, and have and
use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the capi-
tal stock of said company shall consist of six hun-

Incorporated.

dred shares of the par value of twenty-five dollars
each, being fifteen thousand dollars, with power
to increase it from time to time to any number
of shares, not exceeding two thousand shares of
the par value of twenty-five dollars each, being
fifty thousand dollars, by a two-thirds vote of
the stockholders present at any special meeting
or meetings that may be called for such purpose.

Capital stock.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said
corporation may purchase or lease land for the
purpose of erecting thereon a crematory for the
cremation of the dead, and such other buildings
as it may require, and may do all such acts and
things as may be necessary in order to carry out
the purposes and objects of a cremation company.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said
corporation shall be managed by nine directors,

May purchase
land, etc.

a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum,
and that said Benjamin F. Horwitz, John R.
Rennous, John W. Middendorf, John W. Hall,
J. Alexander Preston, Charles Glaser, Francis
H. Hambleton, Dr. Gustavus W. Lehmann and
Daniel C. Heddinger shall be the directors thereof
until the third Saturday in April, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-eight, or until their successors
shall be elected ; and that the directors shall be
elected annually in such manner and at such
time and have such qualifications as the com-
pany by its by-laws may direct, each share of
stock being entitled to one vote at such election;
and the said directors shall elect one of their
number to act as president of said corporation,
one as secretary and one 'as treasurer thereof.
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Directors,