LAWS OF MARYLAND.

by the act to which this is a supplement, and by the other supple-
mentary acts thereto, shall be, and they are hereby empowered to
purchase up all legal or equitable outstanding interests in such lands,
tenements, goods and effects, as may have been, or shall hereafter be
bona fide mortgaged or pledged to them by way of security, or in sa-
tisfaction for debts contracted, in the course of their dealing, or pur-
chased at sales upon judgments or decrees, which they may have or
shall obtain for such debts.

Dec. Ses. 1823

CHAPTER 118.
An act to alter the time of holding the County Court of Harford County.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That in fu-
ture the County Court for the County of Harford, shall be held on
the second Monday in the month of August, yearly, and every year,
instead of the fourth Monday in August.

Passed Jan.
23, 1824.
Time fixed.

CHAPTER 119.

An act to incorporate the Baltimore Chemical Manufactory Company.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Isaac Tyson, junior, and Howard Sims, and all such other persons
as shall associate with them by becoming stockholders in the manner
hereafter provided, their successors and assigns shall be, and they
are hereby made and constituted a body politic and corporate by the
name, style and title of "the Baltimore Chemical Manufacturing
Company," and by the same name, style and title, shall have perpe-
tual succession, and shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded, answer and be answered in any court of law or
equity, to make and use a common seal, and; the same at their plea-
sure to alter or. renew, to ordain and establish such bye-laws and re-
gulations as may be necessary or convenient for conducting the af-
fairs of the said corporation, and not repugnant to law, and to pur-
chase, hold, enjoy, improve or dispose of and convey any lands, te-
nements, hereditaments, goods, chatties, and all manner of estates,
real, personal or mixed, borrow money, enter into contracts, and

Passed Jan.
23, 1824.
Incorpora-
tion.

therefor to use the name or names and seal of the corporation;—Pro-
vided, that the said company shall not at any one time possess more
than five hundred acres of land.

Proviso.

2. And be it enacted, That the objects of the said corporation, and
the powers hereby granted to them, are declared to be the establish-
ment and conducting of a general Laboratory, for manufacturing
chemical paints, medicines and other articles of commerce—also for
dyings bleaching, and calico printing—the digging and mining for
the materials to be used in the manufactory, and the carrying on of
any other branch of manufacture in their discretion, and the procu-
ring, purchasing and vending the articles manufactured, the raw ma-
terials used, or articles which may be required in the conduct of the
business of said corporation.

Purpose de-
fined.

3. And be it enacted, That the members of the said company shall
be liable for the debts of said company in their individual capacities,
and that upon any judgment rendered against the said company in
their corporate name, and also upon return of nulla bona by the she-
riff or coroner on a fiere facias issued against the said company, it
shall and may be lawful for the plaintiff to proceed by scire facias
against any one or more of the said members, and take out execution
thereupon in the same manner as in case of a scire facias upon change
of parties between individuals.

Liability.