DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1828

three days from ten o'clock A. M. until two o'clock P. M.
unless more than one thousand shares shall be sooner sub-
scribed; and no person, copartnership or corporation, shall
be permitted to subscribe for more than ten shares of the
said stock during the first day of opening the said book; and
each person, at the time of subscribing, shall pay to the

them subscribed; and the said commissioners may close the
said subscription at such time, after one thousand shares shall
be subscribed, or after the third day of keeping the same
open as above directed, as they shall deem proper; and if
more than one thousand shares shall be subscribed, the com-
missioners shall reduce the subscription to one thousand
shares, and apportion the same among the subscribers, by
striking off from the largest number of shares in succession,

practicable, at least one share to each subscriber; and a cer-
tificate of such subscription and apportionment shall be en-
tered on the subscription book, and signed by three or more
of the said commissioners, who shall deliver the said book,
and all money received by them, after deducting the ex-
penses incurred in receiving and apportioning the subscrip-
tions, to the directors of the said company, when elected
as hereinafter provided; and every person who by subscrip-
tion, transfer or otherwise, shall become entitled to one or
more shares of the said stock shall, in virtue thereof, be-
come a member of the corporation created by this act, and
on being divested of such stock by transfer or otherwise,
shall cease to be a member thereof.

CHAP. 60.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That as soon as three hundred
shares of the said capital stock shall be subscribed, the subscri-
bers, as holders of the said stock, their successors and assigns,
shall be and they are hereby incorporated into a company,
by the name of The Baltimore Flint Glass Company, and
by that name shall be capable in law of purchasing, holding,
improving, selling, leasing and conveying, estates real, per-
sonal and mixed, effects and property, so far as the same

carrying on, the making or manufacture of glass, in or near
to the city of Baltimore, obtaining materials therefor, and
disposing thereof, and all matters necessarily connected
therewith, and no further; and shall have perpetual succes-
sion, and by the said corporate name may sue and be sued,
and plead, answer and defend, and may have and use a com-
mon seal, and the same may alter and renew; and shall have
and enjoy, and may exercise, all the powers, rights and pri-
vileges, necessary and incident to a corporation, as other
corporate bodies may lawfully do, for the purposes and in
the manner mentioned in this act.

Company incor-

porated