WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

pacities, and an action may in such case be brought
against them, or any of them, or their heirs, executors
or administrators, in any court of record in this State,
by any creditor or creditors of the said corporation,
and may he prosecuted to judgment and execution, any

withstanding, but nothing herein contained shall be
construed to exempt the said corporation, or the lands,
tenements, goods, chattels and estate of the same, from
being also liable for and chargeable with said excess;
provided always, that such of the said directors as may
have been absent when the said excess was created, or
who may have dissented from the resolution, or act.
whereby the same was created, may respectively ex-
onerate themselves from being so liable, by forthwith
giving notice of the fact, and of their absence, or dis-
sent, to the governor of the State, and to the stock-
holders at a general meeting, which they shall have
power to call for that purpose.

CHAPTER 350.

CHAP. 350.

An act to incorporate the Baltimore Silk Company.

Passed April 3,
1839.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That David Barnum, T. B. Skinner, H.
H. Hayden, John Cox, E. Center, C. T. Maddox,
George L. Dickey, John Patterson, W. L. Birch, Ly-
man Reed, Isaiah B. Price, G. Guy, James Coburn,
George Stannard, George Stannard, Jr., Thomas
Lansdale, John S. Skinner and Andrew McLaughlin,
and such other persons as may be hereafter associated
with them, shall be. and they are hereby incorporated

Persons incorporat-

ed.

and made a body politic and corporate, under the name
and style of the Baltimore Silk Company, for the pur-

Name and style.

pose of raising and cultivating the mulberry tree,
manufacturing silk, and for manufacturing and vend-
ing labor-saving machinery for this object, and the
prosecution of all such other operations as may grow
out of, or be connected with the said business and the

timore Silk Company, is hereby invested with all the
rights, and privileges and powers conferred upon such

Objects defined.