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Subscriptions au-
thorised
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Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That William Patterson, William Lorman, John
S. Hollins, James Wilson, Cumberland D. Williams, John
B. Morris, Thomas Snowden, junior, John C. Herbert,
George Brown, Hanson Penn, and Edmund B. Duvall, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners, under the di-
rection of a majority of whom subscriptions may be receiv-
ed to the capital stock of the Baltimore and Washington
Rail Road Company hereby incorporated; and they, or a
majority of them, may cause books to be opened at such
times and places as they may direct, for the purpose of re-
ceiving subscriptions to the capital stock of said company,
after having given such notice of the times and places of
opening the same as they may deem proper; and that upon
the first opening of said books, they shall be kept open for
at least five successive days, from ten o'clock A.M. until
two o'clock P. M. and if at the expiration of that time such
a subscription to the capital stock of said company, as is ne-
cessary to its incorporation, shall not have been obtained,
the said commissioners, or a majority of them, may cause
the said books to be opened, from time to time, after the
expiration of the said five days, for the space of three months
thereafter, or until the sum necessary to the incorporation
of the company shall be subscribed; and if any of the said
may be appointed in his stead by the remaining commission-
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Capital stock, In-
corporation
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of the
said Baltimore and Washington Rail Road Company shall
not exceed three hundred thousand dollars, in shares of fifty
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