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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: November 15, 2014
Caption: Patuxent Manufacturing Company Charter
Additional Description:
1835 — Laws of Maryland — Chapter 26
An Act to Incorporate the Patuxent Company
Passed Jan. 28, 1836

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Horace Capron, Theodore Jenkins, A. E. Hall, E. Snowden, O. C. Tiffany, W. C. Shaw, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made, constituted and declared to be a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the Patuxent Company, and as such by that name, may have perpetual succession, and may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, in any court of law or equity; and shall be able and capable to make and use a common seal, and the same to change and alter at pleasure; also to have and use, exercise and enjoy, as a corporate body, all the powers, rights and privileges proper and necessary for the purpose of manufacturing cotton, iron and other articles, and of vending the same; and for the aforesaid purposes, to purchase, hold and use estate, real, personal and mixed, and to construct such buildings and improvements on their land as may be deemed necessary, and the said estate, or any part thereof, to sell and convey, or other-wise dispose of, and generally to do all such acts, and to ordain, establish and enforce all such by-laws and regulations as shall he necessary and proper for conducting the business of said corporation, the same not being contrary to law or the provisions of this act.
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Submitted: November 20, 2014, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p292737
File Size: 3.055 Megabytes

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