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Incorporated.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That George B. Westcott, F.
D. C. Ruth, Thomas B. Hynson, Edward Wil-
kins, William F. Smith, James P. Wicks and
Capt. George H. Wilson, of Kent county, and
Jonn R. Emory, of Queen Ann's county, and W.
H. D. C. Wright, of Baltimore city, and all and
every person and persons who may become sub-
scribers or stockholders according to the mode
hereinafter prescribed, their successors and as-
signs, and they are hereby incorporated by the
name of the Chester River Steam Navigation
Company for the purposes, and with the privi-
leges and immunities herein described, defined and
granted, and by that name shall be a body politic
and corporate, in fact and in law, and may sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts
of justice or elsewhere, and the said Company
shall have power and authority at any time after
the passage of this act, to purchase, charter,
build, receive in donation, hire, possess, and en-
joy, retain, grant, lease, alien, sell and convey,
under the restrictions and limitations hereinafter
mentioned, such boats or vessels propelled by
steam, and otherwise, with all machinery, fix-
tures and appurtenances, wharves, warehouses for
receiving and shipping merchandise, grain and
all other agricultural products, stock, marketing
and all such houses, structures, rights, goods,
chatties and effects necessary or useful for the
construction, and for. conducting and carrying
on the passenger and freighting business, and the
said Company shall have perpetual succession, and
power to make and use a common seal, the same
to change and renew at pleasure, and to adopt
and carry into execution such laws or ordinances
and regulations as shall by its directions be ad-
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