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Incorporated.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Robert H. Archer, Henry E.
Hazlehurst, John E. D. Thomas, John Schofield
and John Collier, Jr., and all such persons as shall
associate with them, by becoming stockholders, in
the manner hereinafter provided, their successors
and assigns, are hereby made and constituted a body
politic and corporate, by the name, style and title
of the Patapsco Gas Light Company of Ellicotts
Mills, and by that name shall have perpetual suc-
cession; and be capable in law to sue and be sued,
to plead and be impleaded, to answer and be an-
swered in any court of law or equity, to make and
use a common seal and to alter the same, and gene-
rally to do and perform all such acts and make all
such agreements and contracts, and to purchase,
lease, hold and possess such lands, tenements and
hereditaments, goods and chattels as may be neces-
sary for carrying on the manufacture of, or procur-
ing, or collecting gas or inflamable air, and pre-
serving, using and distributing the same, as the
means of lighting the public and private houses,
factories, streets, lanes, alleys, and "other places in
the village of Ellicotts Mills, and its precincts, or
for carrying on any manufacture necessary for con-
verting to useful purposes the product of any sub-
stances which may be employed in making or pro-
curing gas, and for disposing of the same, and such
other powers as may be necessary to carry into ef-
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Proviso.
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fect the purposes of this act; Provided, the said
company shall not possess or hold, at any one time,
real and personal estate together over the value of
twenty-five thousand dollars, without the consent
of the Legislature.
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Subscriptions.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the five per-
sons first named, or a majority of them, may cause
books to be opened at such times and places as they
may direct, giving public notice thereof, for the
purpose of receiving subscriptions to the capital
stock of the said company, which shall be divided
into shares of twenty dollars each, and be limited
to one thousand shares.
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