THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

CHAPTER 268.

CHAP. 268.

An act to Incorporate the Lombard Hotel Company.

Passed Mar. 22,
1838.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That George Stonebreaker, John Hopkins,
William F. Murdoch, Charles G. Bochm, G. Lurman,
P. R. Hoffman, Alexander Falls, Andrew Ellicott,
David Keener, Thomas Wheelam, William Tensfield,
Isaac Reynolds, and all such persons as shall associ-
ate with them, by becoming stockholders in the manner
hereinafter provided, their successors and assigns shall
be, and they are hereby created and constituted a, body

Persons incor-

porated.

politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of
the Lombard Hotel Company, and by that name shall

Style.

have continued succession as a corporation, and be
capable of having and using a corporate seal, and of
transacting business by their officers and agents, with-
out a seal, of suing and of being sued, of purchasing,
holding, leasing, and otherwise disposing of lands, not
exceeding in quantity three acres, within the city of
Baltimore, and of improving and using the same, and
of purchasing, holding, using and disposing of all
kinds of goods, chattels, effects and rights, and gene-
rally to do and receive all such acts as are or shall be

Corporate pow-
ers.

usual, proper and necessary, as a corporation, for the
purpose of erecting, providing, furnishing and leasing
or carrying on a Hotel, to be constructed on, or in the
neighbourhood of South Charles street, in the city
aforesaid, and all necessary appendages and appurte-
nances, and transacting all kinds of business incident
thereto, or connected therewith, or useful, proper and
necessary to render the same useful and convenient to
the public and beneficial to themselves, as fully as any
corporate body, in reference to the objects of its incor-
poration, or any individuals might, may or could law-
fully do.

Objects defined.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
said company shall be divided into shares of one hun-
dred dollars each, and shall not exceed in amount two
hundred thousand dollars, divided into two thousand
shares, and every person who shall become the owner
of one or more shares of the said capital stock, by sub-

Stock $200,000.