THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

1845.

phia respectively; provided, said freight and said pas-

CHAP. 249.

senders do not interfere with or in any manner prevent
said company's boats from stopping at the various stop-
ping places called for in section nine of this act, or from
giving a full and free vent to all produce, marketing, way
passengers and stockholders; the said company not to
charge more than two dollars passage from city to city.

Proviso.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That all the powers,
rights and privileges granted to said company by the
different sections of this act, may be modified or repeal-
ed by the legislature of this State at pleasure.

Modified or
repealed.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
shall be so construed as to authorise the said company,
to issue any note, token, scrip, device or other evidence
of debt, to be used as a currency.

Issues forbid

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That this act of incorpor-
ation shall go into effect immediately after its passage,
and shall continue in force until the year eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-five, and until the end of the next session
of the General Assembly thereafter.

CHAPTER 249.

Go into effect.

An act to incorporate a Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
in Cecil County.

Passed Jan.
30, 1846.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Henry S. Stiles, Benedict Jones, John
N. Black, John L. Clayton, William M. Cullough, Fran-
cis A. Ellis, John M. Miller, John Partridge, William
B. Biles, Hugh Brown, Henry C. Mackall, Joseph
Haines, Allen Anderson, William H. Gilpin, Noble Pen-
nington, George R. Howard, Benjamin B. Chambers,
Cornelius Smith, and William Torbert, of Cecil county,
and all other persons who may hereafter become mem-
bers of the corporation to be created by this act, are
hereby created, ordained and declared to be a body pol-

Incorporated.

itic and corporate, by the name, style and title of the
Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Cecil county, with
all the legal incidents of corporations aggregate; and as
such, they and their successors shall have full power and
authority to make insurance of property against loss or
damage by fire; to provide for the keeping and invest-
ment of any funds or assets that may become the pro-

Name and
style.