Treas., and the other officers and members of
Freedom Lodge, number one hundred and twelve,
of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, located at
Freedom, in Carroll county, and their successors,
be and they are hereby declared to be a commu-
nity, corporation and body politic, by the name,
style and title of Freedom Lodge, number one
hundred and twelve, of Ancient, Free and
Accepted Masons, and by that name they and
their successors shall have perpetual succession,
and shall and may, at all times hereafter, be capa-
ble in law to have, purchase, receive, possess,
enjoy and retain, to them and their successors,
lands, tenements, rents, annuities, bank and stocks,
pensions and other hereditaments in fee simple or
for terms of years, life, lives or otherwise, and
also goods, chattels or effects of what nature,
quality or kind soever, by the gift, bargain, sale,
devise or bequest of any person or persons,
bodies corporate or politic capable of making the
same, and the same or any part thereof at their
pleasure to grant, alien, lease, transfer or dispose
of in such manner as they may judge most condu-
cive to the benevolent and charitable purposes of

said fraternity, provided, always, the said corpo-
ration or body politic shall not any time hold or
possess property, real, personal or mixed, exceed-
ing in value the sum of twenty-five thousand
dollars.

Provisos.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said cor-
poration and their successors, by the name, style
and title aforesaid, shall have power 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 any or all judges,
officers or persons whatsoever, in oil and singular
actions, matters or demands whatsoever.

Capable in
law to sue and
be sued.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted. That the said corpo-
ration and their successors shall have a common
seal for their use, and the same at their will and
pleasure to change, alter and make anew, from
time to time, as they may think best, and shall in
general have and exercise all such rights, privil-
eges and immunities as are incident or necessary
to the corporation herein constituted to enable it
duly and fully to execute all things touching and
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Shall have
and use a com-
mon seal.