WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

said, is hereby invested with all the rights, privileges
and powers conferred upon such companies, by an art,

CHAP. 348.

entitled, an act prescribing general regulations for the
incorporation of manufacturing and mining companies,
passed on the twenty-eighth day of March, eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine, and is also hereby made sub-
ject to the restrictions and regulations prescribed in
said act.

Under the general

law.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
said company shall not he less than four thousand dol-
lars, nor more than fifty thousand dollars, to be divid-
ed into shares of twenty dollars each, to be raised by
subscription, and that the said company shall have the
right to purchase and hold land, not exceeding eight
hundred acres, in Talbot county.

Capital stock—

shares—estate.

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

CHAPTER 348.

In force.

An act to incorporate the Rock Hall Silk Company, in
Kent County.

Passed April 3,
1839.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That William B. Wilmer, Jacob Fisher,
Peregrine Burgess, Thomas Miller, Alexander W.
Ringgold, Joseph Harris and Hiram Jones, and all
such other persons as may be 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 Rock Hall Silk Company, of Kent county,
and the prosecution of such other operations as may
grow out of, or be connected with the said business,

Persons incorporat-

ed.

and the said corporation, under the name and style of
of the Rock Hall Silk Company, of Kent county, is
hereby invested with all the rights and privileges and

Name and style.

powers conferred upon such companies by an act, en-
titled, an act prescribing general regulations for the
incorporation of manufacturing and mining companies,
passed on the twenty-eighth day of March, eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine, and the said company is
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Under the general

law.