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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1866
Volume 107, Page 2156  
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THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 151.

Thomas, Elias Matthews, John Marshall, David
G. McCoy, Joseph H. Jewett, Reubin Haines,
James Russell, Benjamin Hallowell, Darlington
Hoops, and all other members of the Society of
Friends who hold their yearly meetings in Lom-
bard street in the city of Baltimore and who may
hereafter become members thereof agreeably to
such discipline and rules as the said society may
adopt, be, and they are hereby created a body
politic and corporate by the name and style of
The Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends, held
on Lombord street, and by that name shall have
perpetual succession, and be able and capable to
sue and be sued at law and in equity, to have a
common seal, and the same to alter at pleasure,
and to do all acts necessary and lawful for carry-
ing into effect the objects and purposes of the
aforesaid society, and are hereby authorized and
empowered to receive, purchase and hold real and
leasehold estate and other effects and property,
and the same to grant, mortgage, demise, or oth-
erwise dispose of the whole or any part or parts
thereof, provided the clear yearly value of the
property of said corporation shall not exceed the
sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.


Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That whenever any
trustee or trustees holding any property for the
benefit of the aforesaid society shall execute a dec-
laration signed and acknowledged before a Justice
of the Peace where said property may be, that the
same has been held in trust for the use and benefit
of the aforesaid society, and shall file the same to
be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Supe-
rior Court of Baltimore City, and in the office of
the Clerk of the Circuit Court in the respective
counties in which said property may be situated,
The corporation hereby created shall, by means of
said declaration and the recording thereof, be
deemed and taken to be fully vested of all such
property and estate as fully to all intents and pur-
poses as if said property had been granted to the
corporation created by this act by lawful convey-
ance or assignment.

Declaration
to be signed
and acknow-
ledged.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That full power and au-
thority is hereby given to the aforesaid corporators
to frame such constitution for the perpetuation of the

Authority to
frame a con-
stitution,


 
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