THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

CHAPTER 79.

CHAP. 79.

An act to Incorporate, the Chester Silk Company.

Passed Jan. 27
1838.

WHEREAS, sundry persons in Kent county, in this
State, hereinafter named, have agreed to unite in the
formation of a company or society, for the purpose of
purchasing land, for cultivating mulberry trees for
sale, raising silk worms, making, manufacturing, and
selling silk, and also for cultivating said land in other
articles for sale, under the name style and title of the
Chester Silk Company, with a capital stock, at pre-
sent of five thousand dollars, divided into two hundred
shares of twenty five dollars each, and have applied
for an act of incorporation: — Therefore.

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That John B. Eccleston, George S. Holly-
day, Thomas B. Hynson, Samuel E. Baker, Edward
Wilkins, Hiram Browne, Joseph W. Gordon, James
B. Ricaud, Thomas Miller, Alexander W. Ringgold,
Joseph Usilton, William S. Constable, Samuel L.
Sappington, George B. Westcott, Ezekiel F. Cham-
bers, Joseph Wickes, Clement F. Jones, Daniel Col-
lins, Merritt Miller, Thomas Baker, James Gale,
Barney D. Corse, Elizabeth F. Houston, Jacob S.
Freeman, George Vickers, Peregrine Wroth, John W.
Walker, James F. Gordon, Charles Gordon and Ed-
ward T. Wroth, and such other persons as shall herein-
after become stockholders in the said company, shall
be, and are hereby created and declared a body poli-

Persons incor-
porated.

tic and corporate, by the name, style and title of the
Chester Silk Company, and by the same name shall

Style.

have succession, and shall be alike able to sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answer-
ed, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and
equity, in this State and elsewhere, and to make a
common seal, and the same to break, alter or renew
at pleasure.

Corporate pow-
ers.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
said company, for the present, shall be five thousand
dollars, divided into two hundred shares of twenty five
dollars each, but at any time or times after the pas-

Capital $5,00.