T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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of said company to six hundred and twenty-five thou-
sand dollars, and to protect the rights of said com-
pany from forfeiture by non user.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That whereas the eleventh section of
said act limited the duration of said corporation to the
year eighteen hundred and fifty-five, which will soon
expire, the time and duration of said act of incorpora-
tion is hereby extended to the first day of January,
eighteen hundred and eighty, and until the end of the
next session of the General Assembly which shall bap-
pen thereafter.

Time extend-
ed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That as several persons
named in said original act as corporators have since de-
ceased, and that Evan T. Ellicott and John Berry
constitute the only survivors therein named, that Wil-
liam G. Krebs, George L. Harrison, N. Popplein,
Christian Keener, John W. Ross, Samuel Fenly,
Robert Howard, James G. Purvis, Benjamin P. Ben-
nett and Isaac Tyson, Jr., bo added to said surviving
incorporators, and invested with all the powers, rights
and privileges vested in said original corporators, and
they are hereby created and made a corporation and
body politic, by the name and style of the South Bal-
timore company, as fully set forth in the first section of
said original act.

Persons added.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the capital stock
of the said corporation be divided into shares of twenty-
five dollars each to any amount not exceeding twenty-
five thousand shares; and that so much of section two
of the original act as is inconsistent with this supple-
mentary section be stricken out, and the above words
inserted in their place.

Division of

shares.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That none of the rights
or privileges appertaining to, or acquired by the origi-
nal act, shall be forfeited by non user, but shall remain
and continue in full force until the time limited by
this supplementary act, and all provisions, alterations,
or parts of sections inconsistent with the provisions and
alterations made and signified herein, be, and the same
are hereby repealed.

Rights not to
be forfeited

Repealed.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That nothing in this
act shall be considered as interfering or preventing in
any degree with the rights of inspection into the affairs
of the corporation, as reserved by the Legislature in the
twelfth section of the original act.

Affairs.