FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

act of eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, chapter ninety,
there shall be but six directors elected, and that the officer
of vice president and corresponding secretary, provided for
in said section, shall be abolished.

chap. 268.

CHAPTER 268.

An act to incorporate the Maryland Theatre Company, in
the city of Baltimore.

Passed March
2, 1842

Section 4. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Thomas Wildey, Elijah Strausbury, junior,
John Boyd, Henry S. Sanderson, Francis Meyer, George
Gordon Belt, Samuel G. Hyde, William Minifee, Walter
Crook, John Darker, Francis Barker, Shepherd C. Leakin,
Micajah Merryman, John Donohoe, Samuel Ready, and
Robert Boyd, and their associates as aforesaid, and such
other persons as shall hereafter become stockholders in the
corporation hereinafter mentioned, shall be and they are
hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name,
style and title of the Maryland Theatre Company, and by
that name shall have succession, and may sue and be sued,
implead and be impleaded in all courts of law and equity,
and may make and have a common seal, and the same
break, alter or renew at their pleasure, and the purposes,
objects and business, powers and privileges of said corpo-
ration shall be and are hereby declared only to be the cre-
ating, holding, using and employing for their purpose and
advantage, one or more buildings in the city of Baltimore,
for theatrical and other public exhibitions and performances,
not inconsistent with or in violation of the laws of this
State, or the ordinances of the mayor and city council of
Baltimore, and allowing and procuring such exhibitions and
performances, to be held and take place in such buildings,
and the erecting, holding, enjoying and employing for their
profit and advantage, all such ground or buildings as shall
be incidental to or for the convenience of such exhibitions
and performances, and for the preservation of said princi-

Incorporated.

pal buildings aforesaid.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
said corporation shall not exceed the sum of seventy thousand
dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred
dollars, each payable in such instalment and at such times
as the directors of said corporation shall determine, and the
directors are hereby authorized from time to time to enlarge

Capital stock
not to exceed
seventy thou-
sand dollars.