WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic
and corporate, under the name and style of the Feder-
alsburg Silk Company, for the purpose of growing
mulderry trees, feeding silk worms, the growth, man-
ufacture and sale of silk, and the prosecution of such
other operations as may grow out of, or be properly
connected with the said business, and the said corpo-
ration under the name and style of the Federalsburg
Silk Company, is hereby invested with all the rights
and privileges, and powers conferred upon such com-

CHAP. 346.

Name and style.

Objects defined.

panics by an act, entitled an act for prescribing gen-
eral regulations for the incorporation of manufactur-
ing and mining companies, passed December session
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and the said com-
pany is hereby made subject to the restrictions and
regulations in said act

Under the general

law.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
said company shall not be less than four thousand dol-
lars, nor more than ten thousand dollars, divided into
shares of five dollars each, to be raised by subscrip-
tion, and that the said company shall have the right to
purchase and hold land, not exceeding four hundred
acres, in Caroline, and Dorchester counties, or either
of them.

Capital stock—

shares—estate.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall be in
force from the passage thereof.

CHAPTER 346.

In force.

An act to promote the culture of the Mulberry, and the
manufacture of Silk, in Montgomery County, and to
incorporate a company by the name and style of the
Montgomery Silk Company.

Passed April 3,

1839.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a joint stock company, to promote tin
culture of the Mulberry and the manufacture and salt
of Silk, and the prosecution of all such other opera
tions as may grow out of, or be connected with said

Incorporation au-

thorised.

business, may be established in Montgomery county,
under the name and style of the Montgomery Silk Com-
pany, and that said company is hereby invested with
all the rights, privileges and powers conferred upon

Name and style.