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CHAP. 10.
Former appointment
of officers
made valid. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all appointments
of officers for
the said society, heretofore made by the members thereof in their
private capacities, shall respectively continue and be in full force
until the time specified by this act for the first election of officers
for the said corporation. |
| Powers of corporation. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said corporation,
and their
successors, by the name aforesaid, shall be for ever hereafter 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
courts of justice, and before all or any judges, officers or persons
whatsoever, in all and singular actions, matter and demands whatsoever;
and that all legal process that may be hereafter instituted
by the said corporation, shall be in the name of the president and
acting committee of the Baltimore Beneficial Society, and that all
process that may be hereafter instituted against the said society
shall be served on the president on behalf of the same. |
Rights, franchises,
&c. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for the
said corporation, and their successors, for ever hereafter, to have
a common seal for their use, and the same at the 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 which may be necessary to the corporation herein
and hereby constituted and erected, to enable them duly and fully
in the law to execute all things touching and concerning the design
and intent of their said incorporation, for the benevolent succour,
relief and good order of its members, and the widows and orphans
of deceased members of the said society, agreeably to the constitution
and such rules and by-laws as may be established by the
said society. |
No member to be
answerable in his
individual capacity
for losses, &c. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no member of the
said society
shall in his individual capacity be answerable for any losses, deficiencies
or failures, of the joint fund of the said society, for any
more or larger sum or sums of money whatsoever than to the current
amount by him payable into the common fund of the society. |
Dissolution of society,
how to be
made. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if at any time
it may be necessary
to dissolve this society, a proposition to that effect shall be laid
on the table in writing, at a stated meeting of the society, and may
be discussed at the next stated or special meeting, but shall not be
finally decided on until it has been two full months before the society,
and shall not take effect unless three-fourths of the members residing
within the city and precincts of Baltimore are in favour
thereof. |
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Passed Jan. 2, 1815. |
CHAP. XI.
An Act for the relief of Henry Howard, of John, of Montgomery County.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 239. A Private Act. |
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Passed Jan. 2, 1815. |
CHAP. XII.
An Act for incorporating the Brookville Academy, in Montgomery
County. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 240. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS application has been made to this general
assembly of
Maryland, for the passage of a law to incorporate the Brookville
Academy, in Montgomery county; therefore, |
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