THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

session, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, chapter one
hundred and forty, as limits the term of instruction of the
deaf and dumb pupils from this State in the Pennsylva-
nia Institution to five years be, and the same is hereby
repealed.

CHAP. 265.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That from and after the
passage of this act, the terra of instruction in said insti-
tution, so far as said pupils from this State are concern-
ed be, and it is hereby extended and limited to seven
years.

Extended to
seven years.

SEC. 3. And, be it enacted, That nothing in this act
shall be construed to increase the amount annually ap-
propriated by existing laws for the instruction and edu-
cation of the deaf and dumb.

CHAPTER 265.

Not to effect
annual appro-
priation.

An act to incorporate the Tecumseh Manufacturing Com-
pany of Washington County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the persons who shall, as hereafter
mentioned, become subscribers to the capital stock of
the corporation hereby created, and such other persons
ns shall hereafter become stockholders in said corporation
be, and they are hereby created and declared to be a body
politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of the
Tecumseh Manufacturing Company, and by the same
name shall have succession, and shall be able to sue and
be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and defend
and be answered and defended, in all courts of law and
equity of this State, or elsewhere; and to make and
have a common seal, and the same to break, alter and
renew at pleasure; and also to do all acts which shall
be necessary for conducting the concerns of said cor-
poration, not being contrary to this act, or the constilu-
lion and laws of the State, or of the United States.

Passed March
9, 1847.

Incorporated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
said company shall not exceed the sum of seventy-five
thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of fifty
dollars each, five dollars on each share shall be paid at
the time of subscribing, and the remainder at such times,
and in such instalments as the president and directors, or
a board thereof, as hereinafter constituted, may deter-

Capital stock
$75,000.