1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 350.

ryland, use of Hewy Fiery was plaintiff, and the said
Samuel Miller defendant, and in every way similar to
the case first herein mentioned, be set forth and embo-
died in the record of the appeal herein provided for; pro-

Proviso.

vided nevertheless, that the said court shall be satisfied,
that the plaintiffs aforesaid lost his right to appeal in the
above case at the proper and regular time for taking the
same, by a misunderstanding of the counsel engaged in
the case in regard to the taking of the said appeal.

CHAPTER 359.

Passed Mar.
10, 1846.

An act to incorporate the Maryland Marine Insurance
Company.

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Nat. F. Williams, jr., Levin H. Dun-
kin, George A. V. Speckelson, J. C. Yates, James Cra-
zier, Lambert S. Norwood, Wilmot Johnson, Benjamin
C. Buck, William Harrison, B. W. Hewson, Robert B.
Hancock, Benjamin M. Hodges, jr., their associates and
successors are hereby made a corporation by the name
of the Maryland Marine Insurance Company, and by the
same name, shall have perpetual succession and shall be
able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded in
all the courts of law and equity in this State or elsewhere;
and to make and have a common seal, and the same to
break, alter or renew at their pleasure; and also to or-
dain and establish such by-laws, ordinances and regula-
tions as shall appear necessary for regulating the con-
cerns of the said corporation, not being contrary to this
act, nor the constitution and laws of this State or of the
United States.

First board of
directors.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the persons in the
foregoing section named, be and are hereby constituted
and appointed the first board of directors of said compa-
ny, to serve until the first election as hereinafter provid-
ed for.

Capital
$300, 000.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
said company shall consist of three hundred thousand
dollars, to be divided into three thousand shares, each of
one hundred dollars; and should the whole capital not be
subscribed at the passage of this act, the subscription shall
be kept open for four weeks after the passage of this act