In force.

See. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from its passage.

CHAPTER 247.

Passed Mar.
22,1867.

AN ACT to establish and incorporate an Asylum
for the Deaf and Dumb, of the State of Mary-
land.

Incorporated
—power and
privileges.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That William J.Ross, Lawence I.
Brengle, Thomas Sims, H. C. Naill, James M.
Coale, Grafton Duvall, A. Fuller Crane, Joseph B.
Brinkley, Enoch Pratt, Grayson Eichelberger,
Philip F. Thomas, Richard D. Carmichael, Isaac
D. Jones, Albert O. Green, William Galloway,
J. P. R. Gilliss, Daniel Weisel, Oliver Miller,
Jacob Reese, Richard John Bowie, William J.
Albert, George Vickers, John A. J. Creswell,
James T. Briscoe, Curtis Davis, Barnes Compton,
George F. Maddox, Oden Bowie, Charles F. Golds-
borough and William H. Watkins, be and they
are hereby made and constituted a body politic and
corporate by and under the name of the President
and Visitors of the Asylum, for deaf and dumb
mutes of the State of Maryland, and by that name
shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be
sued in any Court, of this State, may have and use
a common seal, and may at their pleasure, alter
and change the same, and may purchase, hold and
receive, sell, demise or dispose of any property,
real, personal, or mixed, as they shall judge to be
most beneficial and advantageous to the good and
charitable ends and purposes of the Institution, and
may receive donations and legacies of personal es-
tate and money for the promotion of the objects of
the Institution.

Meeting of
Visitors, who
and where held

' Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That a meeting of
S the Visitors appointed under this Act or a majority
of them, shall be held at the City of Frederick, on