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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the petitioners, namely, William
Reynolds, J. Wilson, Victor Vallette, Robert Camp-
bell, Hamilton Easter, John Wilson, W. B. Canfield,
O. Tiffany, junior, Samson Cariss, Robert Howard,
R. McEldowny, Upton Slingluff, Joshua Royston, C.
D. Slingluff, John Dallam, and all others who may
become stockholders of the company hereby incor-
porated, their successors and assigns, be and they
hereby are created and made a body corporate and
politic, for the purpose of general exchange of foreign
money, collections of notes and drafts, and other ex-
change and banking business, by the name and title
of Merchants Mutual Exchange and Banking House,
and by the name shall be, and hereby are empowered
to purchase, receive, have, hold, possess and enjoy to
themselves and their successors, lands, tenements, he-
reditaments, goods, chattels and effects of every kind
and nature that may be necessary or convenient for
the business of said corporation, and the same to grant,
alien, sell and dispose of, to sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded, in all courts of justice, to have and
use a common seal, and the same to change at plea-
sure, and to ordain and put into execution such bye-
laws and regulations as they may deem proper for the
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etc.
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