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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Cyrus Brown, President, Perry
G. Walker, Vice President, Isaac Prout, Treasu-
rer, James Weems, Chaplain, William Brown,
Jr.,, Chief Manager, James Brown, Reuben Tan-
neyhill and Thomas Lyies, Assistant Managers,
(all colored persons,) and the other officers and
members of the Beneficial Society of the Laboring
Sons of Frederick City, located in the city of Fred-
erick, and their successors, be and they are hereby
declared to be a community corporate and body
politic by the name and style of the Beneficial
Society of the Laboring Sons of Frederick City,
and by that name they and their successors shall
have perpetual succession, and shall and may at
all times hereafter be capable in law to have, par-
chase, possess, enjoy and retain to them and their
successors, lands, lots and tenements in fee simple,
sufficient in their judgment to accommodate the
wants of said society, not exceeding in value the
sum of twenty thousand dollars, and to invest
their weekly or monthly dues and all other funds
belonging to said society in bank or other stock or
bonds, the same as other benevolent associations
or bodies politic or corporate are capable of doing,
and to sell or dispose of all or any part thereof by
deed, grant, lease and transfer, as they may judge
most advantageous or conducive to the benevolent
purposes of said society, not inconsistent with the
laws of this State or of the United States.
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