WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

CHAPTER 135.

CHAP. 136.

An act to grant to Henry S. Sanderson, late Sheriff of
Baltimore County, further time to complete his collec-
tions.

Passed Jan. 16,
1840.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, i
That the time limited by law, -within which the late sheriff
of Baltimore county shall have made his collections, be
and the same is hereby extended to the first day of Octo-
ber, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-
one.

CHAPTER 136.

Time extended.

An act to incorporate the Mount Vernon Beneficial Society
of Baltimore.

Passed Jan. 18,
1840.

WHEREAS, Matthias Schrate, Israel Price, Nicholas
Peregoy, John Dohm, John Howell, Eli Tucker, William
Woodcock, Nathaniel T. Hatch, Emanuel T. Forsythe,
William Richardson, and others, have formed themselves
into a society for the laudable purpose of affording relief to
each other and their respective families in the event of
sickness, distress and death, and have prayed for an act
of incorporation that they may better execute their bene-
volent intentions — therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Matthias Schrate, Israel Price, Nicholas
Peregoy, John Dohm, John Howell, Eli Tucker, William
Woodcock, Nathaniel T. Hatch, Emanuel T. Forsythe,

hereafter become members of said society, and their suc-
cessors, are hereby declared to be one community and

Individuals in-
corporated.

body corporate forever, by the name, style and title of the
Mount Vernon Beneficial Society of Baltimore, and by

Name and style.

that name they shall be and are hereby made able and ca-
pable in law, to receive contributions, and purchase, pos-
sess, enjoy and retain to them and their successors, lands,
tenements, rents, annuities or other hereditaments, and the
same to dispose of in such manner as they may judge

Corporate pow-

ers.

most conducive to the interest of the said society; provi-
ded, that the said corporation or body politic, shall not at
any one time hold or possess property, real, personal or

Proviso.