— Any  company  formed  under  the  act  entitled,
"  An  act  to  authorize  the  formation  of  corporations
for  manufacturing,  mining,  mechanical  or  chemical
purposes,"  passed  February  seventeenth,  eighteen
hundred  and  forty-eight,  may  increase  the  number
of  shares  cf  which  its  capital  stock  consists;  pro-


1  L.  1848,  c.  40,  §  20;  3  N.  Y.  R.,  Douglas,  19  Hun  (N.  Y.)  577  (18SJ).
S.,    8th   ed.,  p.   1059.      As  to  the  See  Veeder  v.  Mudgett,  95  N.  Y.  295

regularity  of  proceedings  taken  under  (1884) ;  Schenck  v.  Andrews,  46  N.
sections  355  to  369  see  Cuykendall  v.  Y.  598  (1871).
