LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

9

ration and their successors, by the name aforesaid, shall
be forever hereafter able and capable in law to sue and
be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answer-
ers unto, defend and be defended in all or any courts of
justice, and before all or any judges, officers or persons
whatsoever, in all and singular actions, matters and de-
mands whatsoever; and that all legal process that may
hereafter he instituted by the said corporation shall be in
the name of the president and acting committee of the
Baltimore Beneficial Society, and that all process that
may be hereafter instituted against the said society shall
be served on the president on behalf of the same.

Dec. Sess.

1814.

7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for the said corporation and their successors,
forever hereafter, to have a common seal for their use,
and the same at the will and pleasure of them and their
successors to change, alter, break and make anew, from
time to time, as they shall think best; and shall in gen-
eral have and exercise all such rights, franchises, privi-
leges and immunities as by law are incident and neces-
sary to corporations of this kind, and which may be ne-
cessary to the corporation herein and hereby constituted
and erected, to enable them duly and fully in the law to
execute all things touching and concerning the design
and intent of their said incorporation for the benevolent
succour, relief and good order of its members, and the
widows and orphans of deceased members of the said
society, agreeably to the constitution and such rules and
bye-laws as may be established by the said society.

Seal— rights,
franchises, &c.

8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no member of
the said society shall in his individual capacity.be answer-
able for any losses, deficiencies or failures of the
joint fund of the said society, for any more or larger sum
or sums of money whatsoever than to the current amount
by him payable into the common fund of the society.

Losses— mem-

bers not an-

answerable.

9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if at any time it
may be necessary to dissolve this society, a proposition
to that effect shall be laid on the table in writing, at a stat-
ed meeting of the society, and may be discussed at the
next stated or special meeting, but shall not be finally
decided on until it has been two full months before the
society; and shall not take effect unless three fourths of
the members residing within the city and precincts of
Baltimore are in favor thereof.

CHAPTER 11.

Dissolution.

An act for the relief of Henry Howard, (of John,) of
Montgomery county.
Sec. 1. BE IT EN ACTED by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Henry Howard, (of John,) be and
be is hereby authorised and empowered to remove, im-
port and bring into this state at any time within one year
after the passage of this act, a negro slave given him by

Passed Jan.

2, 1815.

May import a

salve.