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Whereas the said sloop Cecelia was wrecked and a total loss
on or about November 3, 1902, and said sloop was not therefore
used for dredging oysters during said season; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is hereby
authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon the Treas-
urer of the State in favor of Thomas L. Hopewell, of St. Mary's
county, for the sum of twenty dollars and ten cents ($20.10),
the sum being the amount paid by him as aforesaid for dredg-
ing license No. 579, to dredge for oysters during the season
aforesaid, said sloop having been- wrecked and lost before said
license was received; and, therefore, never used for that pur-
pose, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 6, 1908.

CHAPTER 410.

AN ACT to amend chapter 298 of the Acts of the General As-
sembly of Maryland of 1902, entitled An Act to incorporate
the Maryland Surety and Guaranty Company, as amended by
the Acts of 1904, chapter 215, and to change the name of the
company to the "Maryland Surety and Trust Company," and
to repeal and re-enact with amendments sections 1, 2 and 6,
and to repeal sections 4 and 14 1/2.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That chapter 298 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1902, as amended by chapter 215 of the Acts of
1904, be and the same is hereby amended as follows, by amend-
ing and re-enacting sections 1, 2 and 6, and by repealing sec-
tions 4 and 14 1/2.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Thomas Mackenzie, Lemuel T. Appold, Harry E.
Karr, Edward E. Mackenzie, Thomas H. Robinson and Howard
Proctor, and their associates and successors, and all such other
persons as shall hereafter become stockholders in the company
hereby incorporated, shall be and they are hereby constituted a
body politic and corporate by the name and style of "The
Maryland Surety and Trust Company," and by that name shall
have perpetual succession and be capable in law to acquire and
hold in anywise and dispose of property and sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded in any court whatever, to make and use
a common seal and to alter the same at pleasure, and to estab-