1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 193.

an act to incorporate the trustees of the Male Free school
of Baltimore, the benefits of education and other advan-
tages intended to be conferred, are restricted to male chil-
dren; and whereas, the trustees of said school have, by
their petition to the General Assembly, represented that
the advantages and benefits of the said institution can now
with much facility, and without injury to male children,
be also extended to destitute female children — therefore,

Admission of
female children
authorised.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the trustees of said school be, and they are hereby
authorised and empowered to admit into said institution
female children, to any and as full a participation of all the
benefits and advantages thereof, as are now extended to
and enjoyed by the male children, under the provisions of
said original act of incorporation.

CHAPTER 193.

Passed Jan. 22,
1840.

An act to incorporate the American Manufacturing Com-
pany.

Individuals in-
corporated.

Name and style.

Objects defined.

Rights and pri-
vileges granted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That William Johnston, James Johnston and
William Simms, and such other persons as may be here-
after associated with them, shall be and they are hereby
incorporated and made a body politic and corporate, un-
der the name and style of the American Manufacturing
Company, for the purpose of manufacturing and vending
cotton and woollen goods, or either of them, and the car-
rying on any other manufacture that the said corporation
may deem proper and necessary to connect therewith; and
the corporation under the name and style of the American
Manufacturing Company, is hereby invested with all the
rights, privileges and powers conferred upon such compa-
nies by an act prescribing general regulations for the in-
corporation of manufacturing and mining companies, pass-
ed the twenty-eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and
thirty-nine; and said company is hereby made subject to
the restiictions and regulations prescribed in said act.

Capital stock.

May hold real
estate.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
said company shall not be less than fifty thousand dollars,
nor more than five hundred thousand dollars, and to be di-
vided into shares of ten dollars each; and that the said
company shall have the right to purchase and hold real