1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 340.

CHAPTER 340.

Passed April 3,
1839.

An act to incorporate the Still Pond Silk Company.

Persons incorporat-

ed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Thomas C. Kennard, William Max-
well, William Hayne, Eben Blackiston, George Gale,
Thomas Hepbron, Isaac L. Price, Benjamin Howard,
Daniel Jones, Samuel Ringgold, Jane E. Kennard,
A. M. Medford, Mary Gale, Sarah G. Gale, James
Gale, John Gale, John Moore, James H. Gale, John
Moody, Richard Lynch, Phebe Lynch, Joshua Crop-
per, Thomas Baker, George Crosby. Henry T. Jump,
Jesse Willson, Thomas Raisin, John T. Skivner,
Christopher Lynch, Matthew Wicks, Hanson Carew,
W. Baker, Joseph Moslin, W. Barret, David Daily,
John Bell, Jacob Sutton, John Weatherly, John Wil-
son, William T. Worrell, Thomas Parks, John D.
Welch, Amanda Ringgold, S. H. Raisin, William
Crew, J. Webb, J. L. Houston, J. Hepbron, J. How-
ard, William Lynch, Daniel Cummings, A. H. Weeks,
J. Redue, and all such other persons as may be here-
after associated with them, shall be and they are here-
by incorporated and made a body politic and corpo-

Name and style.

Objects defined.

rate under the name and style of the Still Pond Silk
Company, for the purpose of cultivating mulberry
trees, manufacturing and vending silk, and the prose-
cution of such other operations as may grow out of, or

General powers.

or be connected with the said business, and the said
corporation under the name and style of the Still Pond
Silk Company, is hereby invested with all the rights
and privileges and powers, conferred upon such com-
panies by an act entitled an act prescribing general
regulations for the incorporation of manufacturing and
mining companies, passed the twenty-eighth day of
March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and the said
company is hereby made subject to the restriction and
regulations prescribed in said act.

Capital—estate.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the Capital stock of
said company, shall not be less than five thousand dol-
lars, nor more than one hundred thousand dollars, to
be divided into shares of twenty dollars each, to be
raised by subscription, and that the said company shall