WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

vided into shares of one hundred dollars each, to be
raised by subscription, and that the said company shall
have Ore right to rent, least, or purchase and hold land,
or lots of ground, within or adjacent to the city of
Baltimore, not exceeding five acres.

CHAP. 368.

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

CHAPTER 368.

In force.

An act to incorporate the Benedict Union Silk Company.

Passed April 4,
1839.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a joint slock company, for the pur-
pose of cultivating mulberry trees, manufacturing and
vending silk, and the prosecution of all other such op-
erations as may grow out of or be connected with said

Objects defined.

business may be established under the name and style
of the Benedict Union Silk Company, and that said
company is hereby invested with all the rights, privi-
leges and powers conferred upon such companies by an

Name and style.

act entitled, an act prescribing general regulations
for the incorporation of manufacturing and mining
companies, passed the twenty-eighth day of March,
eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and that said compa-
ny is made subject to the restrictions and regulations
prescribed by said act.

Under the general

law.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
said company shall not be less than five thousand dol-
lars, nor more than one hundred thousand dollars, to
be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and

Capital stock.

to be raised by subscription, for which purpose books
shall be opened under the superintendence of John D.
Bowling, James Morton, Charles C. Egerton, Charles
S. Locke, Benedict J. Gardiner, Thomas E. Gardi-
ner, Augustus R. Sollers, William Morton, Thomas
Mitchell, Alexander Somerville, James A. D. Dalrym-
ple, John H. Sotheron, James F. Sotheron, James Mil-
timore, George Thomas, Henry Fowler, James F.
Shaw, William R. Barker, James Somerville, Thom-
as B. Hall, or any three of them, being residents of
the county, in which the books shall be opened, in
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Persons to open

books.