SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Isaac Cox, John S. Hogg,
Samuel H. Adams, William T. Markland, J. J.
Purcell, Edward R. Lusby, Thomas S. Ridgaway,
Jr., George W. Herring, George Warfield, John
L. Lawton and John F. Adams, and whosoever
may be now or hereafter associated with them and
their successors, shall be and are hereby made a
body politic and corporate, by the name and style
of the Consolidated Real Estate and Fire Insur-
ance Company of Baltimore, and as such shall be
capable in law to purchase, improve, lease, hold
and dispose of property, both real and personal, to
borrow money and create loans, to make advances
upon buildings and lands, and for such other ob-
jects as may promote the interests of the said Cor-
poration ; and to insure real and personal property
and effects against loss or damage by fire, and the
said Corporation shall have power to make and use a
common seal, and the same to change, alter and re-
pew at pleasure, to sue and be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded, answer and be answered in any court of
law or equity, or elsewhere ; to make all deeds,
transfers, contracts, conveyances and grants what-
soever, and to exercise all, and singular, the pow-
ers incident to bodies politic and corporate.
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