1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 347.

Under the general

law.

such companies, by an art, entitled, "an act prescrib-

ing general regulations for the incorporation of man-

facturing and mining companies, " passed the twenty-
eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-
nine; and that said company is made subject to the re-
strictions and regulations prescribed in said act.

Capital stock—
shares.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
said company shall not be less than one thousand dol-
lars, nor more than fifty thousand dollars, to be divi-
ded into shares of twenty dollars each, to be raised by

Books of subscrip-

tion to be opened
by.

subscription, for which purpose books shall be opened,
in said county, under the superintendance of Thomas
P. Stabler, Thomas McCormick, Lloyd Dorsey, Sam-
nel Blunt, Greenbury Griffith, William T. Glaze,
Thomas T. Wheeler, Thomas Poole, William Brewer,
Adam Robb, Zachariah F. Johnson, William Tom-
milson, Francis Valdemear, Samuel D. Waters and
Thomas Gittings, or any five of them, acting as com-
missioners, in conformity with the rules prescribed by
the above recited act.

May hold estate.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said company
shall have the right to lease, purchase and hold, lands
in said county, not exceeding one thousand acres.

In force.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall be in
force from the passage thereof.

CHAPTER 347.

Passed April 3,
1839.

An act to incorporate the Easton Silk Company, in Tal-
bot County.

Persons incorporat-

ed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That William H. Tilghman, James Parrott,
Solomon M. Jenkins, Thomas S. Dawson, and such
other persons us are now, or may hereafter become
associated with them, shall be, and they are hereby
incorporated and made a body politic, by the name,

Name and style.

style and title of the Easton Silk Company, for the
purpose of promoting the growth and culture of the
mulberry tree and the manufacture of silk, and the
prosecution of all such other operations as may grow
out of, or be connected with the said business, and the
said corporation, under the name, style and title afore-