THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

veiling from the city of Baltimore to a point beyond the
city of Washington, and from the city of Washington to

a point beyond the city of Baltimore.

CHAPTER 371.

CHAP. 371.

An act to incorporate the Nottingham Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Walter T. Allender, Charles W. How-
ard, John Carroll Walch, Joshua Hutchins, Robert Tay-
lor, Lloyd Norris, E. T. J. Woodward, James M. Buch-
anan, and all and every other person or persons, herein-
after becoming members of the Nottingham Company, in
the manner hereinafter mentioned, their successors and
assigns, shall be and they are hereby created and made a
corporation and body politic, by the name and style of
the Nottingham Company, and by that name, shall and
may have perpetual succession and be capable in law of
purchasing, holding, improving or disposing of property
real, personal or mixed, to the extent, in the manner, and
for the purposes herein authorised, and may sue, and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and defend, and
be answered and defended, in all courts of law and equi-
ty, and may receive and make all deeds, transfers, cove-
uants, conveyances, grants, contracts, agreements and
bargains whatsoever necessary for the said purposes, and
may have and use a common seal, which they shall have
power to renew or alter at pleasure, and generally may
do every other act or things necessary to carry into effect
the provisions of this act, and promote the objects and

Passed Mar.

10, 1846.

Incorporated.

designs of said company, as authorised by this act; pro-
vided, that nothing herein contained shall authorise said
company to hold in fee, or otherwise, more than three
thousand acres of land at any one time, and the same
shall be within the body of Baltimore county, for the
purposes in tended by this act, and not for any other pur-
pose whatever.

Proviso.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Walter T.
Allender, Charles W. Howard, John Carroll Walch,
Joshua Hutching, Robert Taylor, Lloyd Norris, E. T. J.
Woodward, James M. Buchanan, or a majority of them,
may receive subscriptions from time to time, to the cap-
ital stock of the said company, in shares of fifty dollars

Corporate
powers.