LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

land National Guard, and for the support and maintenance of
said regiment.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the sum of sixteen thousand
five hundred dollars so appropriated shall be paid out of any
funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the remaining ten
thousand dollars likewise be paid in the year eighteen hundred
and ninety-nine, by the treasurer of the State of Maryland, to
Colonel Willard Howard or other commanding officer of said
regiment, to be used by him in discharging the debts incurred
in making the necessary repairs, alterations, and improvements
to said building, and for the further support and maintenance
of said regiment, and Colonel Willard Howard or other com-
manding officer of said regiment, is directed to return to the
Governor of this State to be submitted to the next session of
the General Assembly a full report of the expenditure of this
appropriation, and that of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine
upon the said armory.

How paid.

SEO 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1898.

CHAPTER 259.
AN ACT to incorporate the "Real Estate Trust Company."

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Miles White, Jr., E. Stanley Gary, S. Sterett
McKim, J. Henry Ferguson, Jr., Charles Morris Howard, and

Effective.

their associates, successors and assigns, and all persons who may :
hereafter become stockholders in the company hereby incor-
porated, shall be a body corporate by the name and style of
"Real Estate Trust Company." 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, and may have and use
a common seal, and generally to do, execute and enforce all
and singular such acts and 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 by this Act
conferred upon it.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, Th'at the capital stock of said

Body
corporate.

company shall consist of four thousand shares, at fifty dollars
each, being two hundred thousand dollars, with the privilege
of increasing the same, from time to time, up to the sum of

Capital stock.