E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

CHAPTER 292.

AN ACT allowing to Nancy Coward, widow of Wil-
liam Coward, a Lieutenant in the American Revo-
lution, a Pension, and appropriating a sum of
money for the payment thereof.

CHAP. 293.

Passed May
26, 1852.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Nancy Coward, of the city of
Baltimore, widow of William Coward, a Lieutenant
in the war of the American Revolution, be, and she is
hereby allowed a pension for, and during her natural
life, the sum of fifteen dollars per month, being equal
to the half pay of a lieutenant, in consideration of the
services of her said husband in the said war.

Pension al-
lowed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That a sum equal to the
half pay of a lieutenant is hereby appropriated, and
the Treasurer, upon the warrant of the Comptroller, is
hereby directed to pay the paid sum of money to the
said Nancy Coward, or to her order, annually, in quar-
terly payments during her life.

CHAPTER 293.

Authority to
pay.

AN ACT to incorporate the Mount Vernon Hotel
Company in the city of Baltimore.

Passed May
27, 1852.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That Franklin Sullivan, John C. Brune,
Thomas Swann, Henry Tiffany, Johns Hopkins, John
H. B. Latrobe, Columbus O'Donnell, George B. Huff-
man, William Bose, Henry Oelricks, John S. Gittings
and John Glenn, be, and they are hereby appointed
commissioners to receive subscriptions to the capital
stock of the Mount Vernon Hotel company, and they,
or any three or more of them, are hereby authorised,
after giving five days notice in two or more newspapers
published in the city of Baltimore, to open a book or
books, at such time and place or places in the said city,
as they shall appoint and specify in the notice so given,
and receive from any free person of full age, subscrip-
tions of one or more shares, of a hundred dollars each,

of the capital stock aforesaid, to an amount not exceed-
ing two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, such sub-

Commission-
ers appointed
to receive sub-
scriptions.