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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 214.

Passed March
2, 1858.

AN ACT to incorporate the Annapolis Gas
Light Company.

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That Richard Swann, Dr. Den-
nis Claude, Alexander Randall, William H. Tuck,
William A. Spencer, James Sands, Frank H.
Stockett, Nicholas H. Green, Alexander B. Hag-
ner, Daniel M. Sprogle, John R. Magruder,
James S. Franklin, J. Wesley White, Dr. Rich-
ard C. Mackubin, James Iglehart, Rev. C. K.
Nelson, and all such persons as shall associate
with them, by becoming stockholders in the man-
ner hereinafter provided, their successors and
assigns are hereby made and constituted a body
politic and corporate, by the name, style and
title of the Annapolis Gas Light Company, and
by that name shall have perpetual succession,
and shall be capable in law to sue and be sued,
to plead and be impleaded, to answer and be an-
swered, in any court of law or equity, to make
and use a common seal, and to alter the same
and generally to do and perform all such acts,
and make all such agreements and contracts,
and to purchase, lease, hold, use and possess such
lands, tenements and hereditaments, goods and
chatties, as may be necessary for carrying on the
manufacture of, or procuring or collecting gas
or inflammable air, and preserving, using and dis-
tributing the same as the means of lighting
the public and private houses, streets, squares,
lanes, alleys and other places in the city of An-
napolis and its precincts, or for carrying on any
manufacture necessary for converting to useful
purposes the products of any substances which
may be employed in making or procuring gas,
and for disposing of the same, and such other
powers as may be necessary to carry into effect

Proviso.

the purposes of this act; Provided, the said com-
pany shall not possess or hold at any one time
real and personal estate together, above the value
of one hundred thousand dollars, without the
consent of the Legislature.

Books to be
opened.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the seven per-
sons first named above, or a majority of them,



 
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