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CHAP. 36.
Election of officers.
Appointments
heretofore made to
be of full force.
Rights, privileges,
&c.
Duration
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2. And be it enacted, That the members of the said corporation,
and their successors, may meet together on the first Wednesday of
August next in Chester Town, and on the same day annually forever
thereafter, or as soon after as may be, and then and there elect the
officers of the said society, and form such rules and regulations as
may be necessary for assuring and carrying into effect the benevo-
lent purposes of this act, provided such rules and regulations be not
repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state or the laws of
the United States.
3. And be it enacted, That all appointments of officers for said
society, heretofore made by the members thereof, in their private
capacities, shall continue and be of full force until the time speci-
fied by this act for the first election of officers for said body corpo-
rate.
4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation, and their suc-
cessors, 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 answered unto, defend and be defended, in all or any courts
of justice, and before, all or any judges or justices, officers, or per-
sons whatsoever, and in all and singular actions, matters and de-
mands whatsoever, and that it shall and may be lawful for them,
and their successors, for ever 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 general law, exercise all
such rights, franchises, privileges and immunities, as by law and
incidents are necessary to corporations of this kind, and which may
be necessary to the corporation herein and hereby constituted and
erected, to enable them fully in the law to execute all things touch-
ing and concerning the design and intent of the said corporation,
agreeably to such rules and by-laws as may be established by said
society.
5. And be it enacted, That this act shall be and remain in force
until the first day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and
forty, and until the end of the next session of the general assembly
which shall happen thereafter.
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Passed Jan 6, 1820
Governor and
council to appoint
assistant district
attorney for Balti-
more city court
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CHAP. XXXVII.
A Further Supplement to an act, entitled, An act providing for the appointment
of an Attorney General, and of District Attornies, in the several Judicial Dis-
tricts of this State, and for Baltimore City Court.
1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That owing
to the inability, from mental incapacity, of the district attorney of
Baltimore city court to discharge the duties of his appointment, it
shall be the duty of the governor to nominate, and by and with the
advice and consent of the council to appoint and commission, a per-
son of sound legal knowledge, resident of Baltimore city, to act as
assistant district attorney for Baltimore city court, during the con-
tinuance of the inability of such district attorney, of which the
court shall judge, and such assistant district attorney shall take the
oaths required to be taken by the district attornies, and shall, dur-
ing his acting as such, be entitled to demand and receive one half
of the fees allowed by law to the district attorney of Baltimore city
court, of which he shall be appointed assistant district attorney,
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