1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 256.

son, to Charles S. Simmons, be and the same is
hereby confirmed and made valid in law, and that
the said Charles S. Simmons hold the said negroes
and their issue according to the terms and provi-
sions of said bill of sale from Thomas Warfield to
Rezin Simpson, recorded, in Liber H. S. number
seventeen, folios fifteen, &c., one of the records of
Frederick county, in the same manner, and to all
intents and purposes, as if the said executor had
conveyed the said negroes to the said Charles S.
Simmons, by a good and sufficient bill of sale,
duly executed, acknowledged and recorded, accord-
ing to law, at the time of said sale.

CHAPTER 256.

Passed March
10, 1860.

AN ACT to incorporate the Merrill Patent Fire-
Arm Manufacturing Company.

Incorporated

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Robert W. Pendleton, James
H. Merrill, P. E. Thomas, Jr., William Wood-
ward and David Cushing, and all and every per-
son or persons who with them or in their stead
shall hereafter become associated with them, their
successors and assigns, shall be and are hereby
created and declared to be a body corporate and
politic by the name and style of the Merrill Patent
Fire-Arm Manufacturing Company, and by that
name shall and may have perpetual succession, and
be capable in law of purchasing, holding, improve-
ing and disposing of property, real, personal and
mixed, for the purpose herein authorised, and may
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer
and defend in all courts of law and equity, and
may make, execute and deliver, or have or cause to
be made, executed and delivered to them all deeds,
transfers, grants, covenants, contracts, agreements
and bargains whatsoever necessary for the pur-
poses and objects of said company, and may have
and use a common seal, which they shall have
power to alter or renew at pleasure, and generally
to do every other act or thing necessary to carry