PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1847.

said county are against the levy of the tax named

in the second section of this act, then said second section
shall be null and void.
SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect immediately after its passage, except that part of
this act relating to the assent or dissent of the legal
voters in said county; and all other acts or parts of
acts inconsistent with the same, be and they are hereby

repealed.

CHAPTER 188.

CHAP. 188.

In force.

Inconsistent
acts repealed.

An act to incorporate the Mutual Fire Insurance Com-

pany of Montgomery County.

Passed
Feb. 8, 1848.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Edward Stabler, Doctor William D.

Palmer, George E. Brooke, Robert R. Moore, William
B. Farquhar, Joseph. Gilpin, Richard J. Bentley, Joshua
Pierce Edward Lea, Samuel Ellicott, Henry Stab-
ler, Francis P. Blair and Caleb Stabler, and their suc-
cessors, and all other persons who may hereafter be
come members of the corporation to be created by this
act, are hereby created and declared to be a body politic

Incorporated.

and, corporate, by the name, style and title of the Mutual
Fire Insurance Company in Montgomery county, 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 in this State or elsewhere, to have,
make and use a common seal, and the same to break
alter and renew at their pleasure, and shall have full
power and authority to make insurances on any kind of
property against loss and damage by fire, to provide for
the keeping and investment of any funds or assets that
may become the property of the company; and generally
to transact, execute and perform all such business as may
appertain; to a fire insurance company, not being con-
trary to this act or the constitution and laws of this

Name and
style.

Corporate
powers.

State or of the United, States; provided however, that
nothing in this act shall be construed to grant banking
privileges on the said company, or the right to issue any
note of the nature of a bank note.

Proviso.