WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

James C. Reyner, James Duke, and such other per-

sons as may be now, or hereafter associated with them,

shall be, and they are hereby incorporated and made a
body politic and corporate, under the name and style
of the Union Silk Company of Caroline county, for the
purpose of promoting the growth and culture of the
mulberry tree and manufacture of silk, and prosecu-

tion of all such other operations, as may grow out of,

or be connected with said business, as may be estab-

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lished in Caroline county, under the name and style of
the Union Silk Company of Caroline county, and that

Name and style.

said company is hereby invested with all the rights
and privileges and powers confered upon such compa-
nies by an act prescribing general regulations for the
incorporating of manufacturing and mining companies,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
thirty-eight, and that said company is subject to the
restrictions and regulations prescribed in said act.

Powers conferred.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted. That the capital stock of
said company shall not be less than three thousand
dollars, nor more than thirty thousand dollars, to be
divided into shares of five dollars each, to be raised by
subscription, and that the said company shall have the

Capital stock.

right to purchase and hold land, not exceeding five
hundred acres in the said county.

Real estate.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall be in
force from the passage thereof.

CHAPTER 319.

In force.

An act to change the name of William McLean, of Cor-
nelius.

Passed April,
1839.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the name. of William McLean, of Cornelius, of
the city of Baltimore, be, and it is hereby altered and
changed to William Henry McLean.

Change.