| 1814.
CHAP. 102.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and by that name shall be and are hereby made able and capable
in law to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain, to
them and their successors, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, pensions,
and other hereditaments, in fee simple, for a term of years,
life, lives or otherwise, and also goods, chattels and effects, of
what nature, kind or quality soever, and the same to grant, demise,
alien or dispose of, and by the name aforesaid to do and execute
all other things touching the same; Provided, that the clear
yearly value of the real estate of said corporation, exclusive of any
house which they may hereafter possess for the keeping the books,
maps, and other effects of the company, exceed not the sum of one
thousand dollars. |
| Rights and privileges. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company,
and their successors,
by the aforesaid name, shall be for ever hereafter able and
capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer
and be answered, defend and be defended, in any courts of record,
or any other place whatsoever, and also to make, have and use, a
common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew, at pleasure,
and also to assemble and meet at such times and places as they may
agree upon, and publicly notify, and by a majority of the voices of
those attending to ordain, establish, and put in execution, such by-laws,
ordinances and regulations, as to them shall seem necessary
and convenient for the government of the company, the same not
being contrary to the laws of this state, or of the United States, and
generally to do and execute all such acts matters and things, as to
them shall or may appertain to do. |
Present officers to
act until others
are appointed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That until there shall
be under this
act, an election of officers necessary to the ends of the institution,
those now acting, or who may be hereafter appointed to act under
any existing regulations of the company, shall continue so to do,
according to the provisions heretofore made, and such regulations
shall, till lawfully altered, be deemed as valid and obligatory as if
made since the passage of this act. |
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Passed Jan. 30, 1815. |
CHAP. CIII.
An Act relating to British Confiscated Property within this State.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 360.
See 1817, ch. 137. |
Powers of governor
and council relative
to property
discovered to them,
&c.
* Ch. 100.
† Ch. 109. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
all the powers and authority vested in the governor and council by
the law, entitled, An act respecting the debts due to this state, and
the debtors thereof, and for other purposes, passed in the year
eighteen hundred and two*, and also by the supplement to that act
passed in the year eighteen hundred and three †, in relation to British
property confiscated, or liable to confiscation, shall be hereafter
possessed and exercised by them over any such property which
may be discovered to them, and that six months from the time of
any such discovery be allowed to compound for such property, and
upon payment being made for any such property sold by the governor
and council, deeds shall be made by the chancellor, as provided
by the act aforesaid. |
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