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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
having formed themselves into a society, the chief object of
which is to raise a constant fund by donation from the charitable
and annual subscription, for the purpose of relieving such of the
citizens of Annapolis as may, by sickness or other unavoidable
circumstances, be reduced to indigence and distress, and for other
laudable purposes, they have prayed an act of incorporation; and
the legislature thinking it right and proper to encourage such benevolent
institutions, therefore, |
1811.
CHAP. 196. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Samuel Ridout, Alexander C. Magruder, Richard Harwood, (of
Thomas,) Joseph Evans, John Golder, Jeremiah Hughes, John
Barber, George Shaw, Nicholas Brewer and John Randall, and
others that now are or may hereafter become subscribers and contributors
to the said society, and may be admitted into the same
agreeably to the rules and by-laws thereof, and their successors,
are hereby declared to be one community, corporation and body
politic, for ever, by the name of The Charitable Society of the
City of Annapolis, and by the same name, they and their successors
shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall and may
at all times hereafter be persons able and capable in law to purchase,
take, have and enjoy, to them, and their successors, in fee,
or less estate or estates, any lands, tenements, rents, annuities,
chattels, bank stock, registered debt or debts, public securities in
this state, by the gift, bargain, sale or devise, of any person or persons,
bodies politic or corporation, capable to make the same, and
the same at their pleasure to alien, sell, transfer or lease, in such
manner as they may judge most conducive to the benevolent and
charitable uses of said society; Provided nevertheless, that the
said
corporation or body politic shall not at any time hold or possess
real, personal or mixed property, exceeding in total value the sum
of twenty thousand dollars. |
Society incorporated
—its privileges. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the members of
said corporation,
and their successors, may meet together on the first Fridays
of January and July eighteen hundred and twelve, and semi-annually
thereafter, or as soon after as may be, and then and there elect
the officers of said society, and form such rules and regulations as
may be necessary for assuring and carrying into effect the benevolent
purposes of this act, provided such rules and regulations shall
not contravene or be repugnant to the constitution and laws of this
state, or of the United States. |
Days of meeting—
rules, regulations,
&c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said corporation,
and their
successors, by the name aforesaid, shall be for ever thereafter able
and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all or
any court of justice, and before all or any judges, officers or persons
whatsoever, in all and singular actions, matters or demands
whatsoever; and that it shall and may be lawful for them, and their
successors, for ever thereafter, to have and keep a common seal
for their use, and the same at their will and pleasure of them and
their successors, to change, alter, break and make anew, from time
to time, as they shall think best; and shall in general have and exercise
all such rights, franchises, privileges and immunities, as by
law are incident and necessary to corporations of this kind, and
what may be necessary to the corporation, herein constituted, to |
Powers of the society. |
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