THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

may deem fit, not exceeding the sum of thirty dollars, for
the services performed under this act, to be levied and
collected as in said original act designated.

CHAPTER 112.

CHAP. 112.

An act to incorporate the Maryland and Virginia Steam
Packet Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That James Harwood, Samuel McDonald, John
Boyd, Hugh McElderry, Walter Crook, jr., John A. Robb,
William Hooper, William Cooke, John Bratt, William
Chesnut, Henry Pike, John Sullivan, Asa Needham, James
H. Luckett, Alexander Smith, and Thompson and Spald-
ing, their associates, successors and assigns be, and
they are hereby created and made a corporation and

Passed Feb.
12, 1847.

Incorporated.

body corporate, by the name, style and title of the
Maryland and Virginia Steam Packet Company, and by
that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be
capable in law to sue and be sued, to plead, answer and
defend in any court of law or equity; and the said cor-
poration shall have power to make, have and use a com-
mon seal, and the same to break, alter and renew, and
generally to do all such ads as may or shall be necessa-
ry for the purpose of establishing and conducting a line
or lines of steamboats, vessels and slaves, or other car-
riages, between Baltimore and Fredericksburg, and the
several ports or places on the Rappahannock, and on the
other rivers and waters of the Chesapeake Bay, for the
conveyance of passengers, and transportation of mer-
chandize and other articles.

Name & style.

Corporate
powers.

Have a com-
mon seal.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
the said corporation shall be divided into shares of one
hundred dollars each, and shall not exceed one thousand
shares, including the shares already subscribed for, and
held by the persons hereinbefore named and incorporat-
ed; the residue of the said number of shares, or so many
of them, as from time to time shall be necessary, shall
be subscribed for and disposed of, from time to time, in
such manner as the resolutions or by-laws made in pur-
suance of this charier shall provide and direct; each
stockholder, at every election or general meeting of the
stockholders in virtue of this act, shall be entitled to vote

Capital stock.