A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

shall have all the powers granted by the act to
which this is a supplement.

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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That said company
shall have power to consolidate with any line of
telegraph in this or other States, with which they
may connect, and the powers granted by the third
and eighth sections of the act to which this is a
supplement are hereby enlarged so as to apply to
any consolidation, and the said company may
have a common stock, with such companies or
lines of telegraph, and may conform to the pro-
vision of the charter of any such companies so far
as the same relates to the business of telegraph-
ing, and is not inconsistent with the provisions of
said act of eighteen hundred and forty-seven, in-

Power to
consolidate.

corporating the said American Telegraph Compa-
ny; provided, they be not inconsistent with the
Laws of this State or of the United States, and,
this act shall take effect from its passage.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 381.

AN ACT to incorporate the Merchants and Me-
chanics Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore.

Passed Mar.
10, 1864.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Joseph C. Whitney, Sheppard
C. Leakin, John J. Wright, Horatio L. Whit-
ridge, John M. Stevenson, Joseph H. Rieman,
Chauncey Brooks, Nathaniel P. Campbell, together
with the subscribers to the stock of the association,
shall be and they are hereby declared to be a body
politic and corporate, by the name and style of the
"Merchants and Mechanics Fire Insurance Com-
pany of Baltimore," and by that name shall have
succession, and be capable in law to sue and be
sued, plead and impleaded, answer and be answer-
ed, defend and be defended, in all Courts of Law
and Equity, or elsewhere; to make and use a com-
mon seal, and the same to alter or renew at their
pleasure; and generally to perform all things rela-

Incorporated.