T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

treasurer to pay said James Wingate, for the said
Maryland Register, at the rate of four dollars per
copy.

CHAP. 254.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That two hundred
and fifty copies of said Maryland. Register shall he
distributed from the State library, under the direc-
tion of the comptroller of the treasury, among the
different officers of this State, in the various coun-
ties and the city of Baltimore.

Distribution.

SEC. 3. And Be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from and after the day of its passage.

CHAPTER 254.

In force.

AN ACT to incorporate the Sonora and Arizona
Company.

Passed March
9, 1860.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Alfred Spates, Francis Blood-
good, James Fitzpatrick, and Thomas Devecmon,
and their associates, be and they are hereby created
a body corporate and politic, by the name, style,
and title of the Sonora and Arizona Company, and
by such name and title shall have perpetual succes-
sion, and shall be capable of suing and being sued,
impleading and being impleaded, and of granting and
receiving in its corporate name, property, real,
personal and mixed, and of holding and improving
lands in Arizona, Sonora, Mexico, or other portions
of Spanish America, and to obtain therefrom any
and all minerals, or other valuable substances,
whether by mining or working, leasing or dispos-
ing of privileges to work or mine such land, or any
part or parts thereof, to construct whatever basins
and docks, to improve the navigation of lakes and
rivers, to construct and open for use, and to furnish
and equip any highways, roads or railroads in So-
nora, Arizona, Mexico, or Spanish America afore-
said, and shall have and possess power to sell,
lease, let and colonise any such lands, and to erect
and build houses, manufactories and mills thereon,
and to use, let, lease or work the same, and to hold

Incorporated.