WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

William Shaw, 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 cor-
porate, under the name and style of the Western Coal

CHAP. 357.

and Iron Company, for the purpose of opening and
working mines of coal, iron and other minerals, man-
ufacturing and vending the same, and the prosecution
of such other operations as may grow out of, or be
connected with the said business, and the said corpora-
tion under the name and style of the Western Coal
and Iron Company, is hereby invested with all the
rights and privileges and powers, conferred upon such

Objects defined.

companies by an act, entitled an act prescribing gen-
eral 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 restric-
tions 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 be less than twenty thousand
dollars nor more than five hundred thousand dollars, to
be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, to
be raised by subscription, and that the said company
shall have the right to purchase and hold land, not ex-
ceeding five thousand acres, in Allegany county

Capital stock.

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

CHAPTER 357.

In force.

An act to incorporate the Hillsborough Silk Company.

Passed April 3,
1839.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That John Jump, of E., David Knotts and
Dr. William Hemsley, of Caroline county, 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

Persons incorporat-

ed.

and style of the Hillsborough Silk Company, for the
purpose of growing mulberry trees, feeding silk
worms, the growth, manufacture and sale of silk,
and the prosecution of such other operations as may
grow out of, or be properly connected with the said

Objects defined.