1847.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 240.

Vacancies —
how filled.

town, between the hours of two o'clock and five o'-
clock, in the afternoon of that day, and on the same day
and between the same hour in every year the thereafter.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners
hereafter to be elected under the provisions of this act
shall hereafter remain in office until their successors
have been elected and qualified, and in case the
commissioners elect shall fail to qualify within twenty
days thereafter it shall be the duty of the board upon
giving twelve days notice to hold a new election.

Rights vested.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this commissioners
elected under this supplement shall have all the powers
and authority conferred upon commissioners by the
said original law.

In force.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this law shall take
effect from and after the day of its passage,

CHAPTER 240.

Passed
March 9,1848.

Incorporated.

An act entitled, an act to Incorporate the Sassafras Steam
Packet Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Griffith M. Eldridge, George Davis,
William Knight, James F. Woodland, Thomas C. Ken-
nard, William S. Constable, Thomas W. Levering,
Ebenezer T. Massey and such other persons as may
from time to time become and be possessed of stock in
said company, be and are hereby incorporated by the

Name and
style.

name of the Sassafras Steam Packet Company, for the
purpose of establishing a line of steamboats from Sassafras
river and the eastern shore, Maryland to Baltimore, and
of transporting in steamboats passengers and every de-
scription of freight to and from said places, to and from
various landings along the shores of the Chesapeake
bay within this State, the capital stock of the said com-

Capital stock
limited.

pany shall not exceed eighty thousand dollars, nor shall
it hold real estate except by mortgage taken bona fide
to secure debts contracted with company in the exer-
cise of its legitimate powers.

General pow-
ers.

SEC 2. And be it enacted, That the persons herein-
above incorporated, or a majority of them assembled,
due notice having been given to the rest of the
company, of the designs, the time and place of meeting,
may make such regulations as may be suited to the