1808.

NOVEMBER, LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.

XLVII

Constable's
fees, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for every warrant of a criminal nature, issued by any justice of
the peace, and served by any constable, the constable so serving the same, and producing the person
against whom the warrant issued, before competent authority, and executing the determination
thereof, shall be entitled to receive fifty cents for his services; and that the several sums contem-
plated to be paid by this act for executing criminal process, if supported by proper vouchers, shall,
by the justices of the levy court of Queen-Anne's county, be assessed and levied on the assessable
property of the said county.

CHAP. XLVIII.

Passed 23d of
Dec. 1808.

An ACT to remit certain forfeitures incurred under the act, entitled,
An act to incorporate a fire insurance company in the city of Bal-
timore.

Forfeitures, on

petition, may

be annulled, &c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That any subscriber, or the assignees of
any subscriber, for shares in the said company, who have heretofore incurred a forfeiture of his,
her or their shares, under and by force of the said law, may have the same annulled, remitted and
made void, on petition to the president and directors of the said company; provided no remittance
of any forfeiture under this act shall take place, unless by the assent of two thirds of the whole
board of directors next hereafter to be chosen, nor without the payment of principal and interest of
the instalment neglected to be paid.

Law to he pub-
lished, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president and directors shall, thirty days previous to the
next election of directors, cause this law to be published in two or more news-papers of the city of
Baltimore, in one paper at Easton, one at Frederick-town, one at the city of Washington, and in
the Maryland Gazette.

Part of an act
repealed.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the above recited act, entitled, An act to incorpo-
rate a fire insurance company in the city of Baltimore, as is inconsistent with, or repugnant to, this
act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAP. XLIX.

Passed 22d of
Dec. 1808.

An ACT to incorporate the Union Manufacturing Company of Ma-
ryland.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition and memorial of the pre-
sident and directors of the Union Manufacturing Company of Maryland, that the stock-
holders composing the said company have, by their subscriptions, raised a very considerable capital,
for the purpose of establishing, carrying on and encouraging, manufactories of all the useful and
necessary articles which have heretofore been imported from foreign countries; and it being further
represented by the said memorial, that the said company have already made considerable progress in
the establishment of a cotton factory, and other works, to be moved by water, on the river Patapsco;
and the president and directors aforesaid having, by their said memorial, petitioned this general as-
sembly for an act of incorporation in favour of the said company, and this general assembly yielding
to the prayer of said petition, therefore,

Persons incor-

porated, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Robert M'Kim, William Patter-
son, William Wilson, Ludwig Herring, John M'Kim, James H. M'Culloch, John Gill, James Beatty,
Benjamin Ellicott, A, J. Schwartz, Nathan Levering, John Trimble and William Jones, together
with all the stockholders, and all such persons as may become stockholders, in the said company, be
and are hereby created and declared one body politic and corporate, by the name and style of The
Union Manufacturing Company of Maryland, and by the same name and style shall, during the con-
tinuance of this act, have succession, and be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in
any court of law or equity, and to make, have and use, a common seal, and the same to change and
alter when and so often as they shall think fit, and to ordain and establish such by-laws, ordinances,
and regulations, as shall appear necessary for conducting the concerns of the said company, not
being, contrary to this act, or to the constitution and laws of the United States or of this state.

Capital to be
one million of
dollars, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the capital of the said company shall be one million of dollars,
money of the United States, to consist of twenty thousand shares, of fifty dollars each, one thou--
sand of which shares shall be reserved for the state, if accepted by the legislature within two years
from the time of passing of this act; and the amount of the said stock may be called in by the pre-