1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 257.

and forty, contract another marriage with said William
R. Sheffield, by whom, since said marriage, she has
had two children, now living; and whereas, it appears
reasonable and just that the consequences of said second
marriage, contracted under said mistaken belief, should
be averted — Therefore,

Divorced.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That, the said Mary E., be and she is
hereby declared to be divorced a vinculo matrimonii,
from her former husband William W. Lewis.

Children legit-
imated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the marriage con-
tracted and solemnised on the twenty-seventh day of
May, eighteen hundred and forty, between the said Ma-
ry E. and William Robinson Sheffield, be and the same
is hereby declared to be made valid to all intents and
purposes, and that the children of the said William R.
Sheffield and Mary E., be and they are hereby declared
to be legitimate, in the same manner as if no impedi-
ment had existed to said marriage between their said
parents.

CHAPTER 257.

Passed

Feb. 28, 1850.

An act to Incorporate the Henderson Steel and File
Manufacturing Company, of Weverton, Mary-
land.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, an act was passed by the General Assembly
of Maryland, at its December session, eighteen hundred
and forty-seven, chapter one hundred and ninety-four,
entitled, an act authorising the establishment of Man-
ufacturing companies, at Weverton; and whereas, a
company styled, The Weverton Steel and File Manu-
facturing Company, has been established in and by virtue
of said act, and is now manufacturing files of a very
superior quality, and have elected as their directors
Archibald Henderson, Casper W. Wever, George Roth-
,ery; Robert Beale, William Louhbridge, and John
Stewart; and whereas, it is represented to the General
Assembly, that said company desire a change of their
name and style to that of the Henderson Steel and File
Manufacturing Company, of Weverton, Maryland; that
they contemplate the erection of a very extensive works
for the manufacture of steel, files, and many other articles,
and rendering modification of the powers conferred by said