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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Caleb S. Maltby, John W.
Baker, Lucins U. Maltby, Hopper E. Hicks and
John Brown, and all such persons as shall asso-
ciate with them by becoming stockholders, in the
manner hereinafter provided, their successors and
assignees; are hereby made and constituted a body
politic and corporate, by the name, style and title
of the "Gas Light Company of Cambridge," and
by that name shall have perpetual succession, and
be capable in law to sue and be sued, to plead and
be impleaded to answer and be answered, in any
court of law or equity, to make and use a common
seal, and to alter, the same, and generally to do
and perform all such acts and make all such agree-
ments and contracts, and to purchase, lease, hold
and possess such lands, tenements and heredita-
ments, goods and chattels as may be necessary for
carrying on the manufacture of or procuring or
collecting gas or inflammable air, and preseiving,
using and distributing the same, as the means of
lighting, the public and private houses, factories,
streets, lanes, alleys and other places in the town
of Cambridge and its precincts, or for carrying on
any manufacture necessary for converting to use-
ful purposes the product of any substance which
may be employed in making or procuring gas, and
for disposing of the same, and such other powers
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Incorporated.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the five persons
named, or a majority of them, may cause books to
be opened at such times and places as they may
direct, giving public notice thereof, for the purpose
of receiving subscriptions to the capital stock of
the said company, which shall be divided into
shares of twenty dollars each, and be limited to
one thousand shares, which said capital may be
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Books to be
opened.
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