E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

George W. Russell, William Chesnut, Samuel J.
Pentz, Daniel S. Leffler, Samuel Cramer, Jacob J.
Bankard, John Wonderly, W. I. Briscoe, John Grea-
cen, S. W. Shoemaker, M. N. Falls, William Cal-
low, James C. Sellman and Son, James Whiting, Wil-
liam McCann, J. J. and F. Turner, Benjamin C.
Birch, Samuel Whiting, Pere Tilghman, W. James
Fickey, Henry Hewitt, Pere Tilghman, Senior, Wool-
man J. Gibson, John M. Kenney, James Woolen,
William Macgee, Samuel S. Robinson, Luther W. C.
Story, Elijah E. Massey, John W. Perry, James Tilgh-
man, of John, Albert Jump, Miss. A. E. Tilghman,
Charles E. Skinner, Isaac Winchester, Alexander
W. Thompson, E. F. K. Brown, Charles Stevens,
Franklin Bright, Walter K. While, Roderick Earick-
son, James Parott, James Dixon, Samuel Dickerson,
Joseph Graham, T. L. Martin, Richard Thomas, James
H. McNeal, James L. Martin, William M. Cann &
Co., James T. Earle, and such other persons as may,
from time to time, become and be possessed of stock in
said company, their successors and assigns, be, and
they are hereby incorporated, by the name of the
Eastern Shore Steamboat Company, and by that name
and title, shall have succession, and shall be capable
in law to sue and be sued in any court of law or equity,
to have and use a common seal, and to alter the same
whenever deemed expedient, and generally to do all
such acts as shall be proper and necessary, for the pur-
pose of establishing a steamboat line between the city
of Baltimore and the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and
to navigate the Chesapeake Bay, and its tributary
streams; and the said company shall have power to
transport by a vessel or vessels, propelled by steam, pas-
sengers and every description of freight to and from the
said city, and to and from the port or landing on the
Eastern Shore.

CHAP. 190.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
said company shall consist of nine hundred and twenty
shares, of fifty dollars a share; the President and di-
rectors shall have power, from time, to increase the
capital stock to such an amount, as may be found ne-
cessary or expedient for the accomplishment of the ob-

Capital stock.

ject of this incorporation; Provided, the same does

not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the persons herein
incorporated, or a majority of them assembled, due no-
tice having been given to the rest of the company of
their designs, the time and place of meeting, may
make such regulations as may be suited to the proposer

of their incorporation, choose their officers, and provide

Make regula-
tions, &c.