| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
Curlet, Dominick Bader, Henry Hook, James Kirkpatrick, Thomas
Kenighton, Samuel Myers, and others, that now are or may
hereafter become members of the said corporation hereby created,
or may be admitted into the said corporation agreeably to the constitution,
rules, and by-laws of the same, and their successors, are
hereby declared to be one community, corporation and body politic,
for ever, by the name, style and title, of The Union Beneficial Society
of Baltimore; Provided nevertheless, that the said corporation
may be dissolved at any time by the consent of its members as is
hereinafter provided. |
1816.
CHAP. 71. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the affairs of
the said society shall
be managed and conducted by a president, vice-president, treasurer,
and standing committee of nine members, and a secretary, to be
chosen out of said committee, the whole to be elected annually on
the first Monday of July, in each and every succeeding year, in
such manner as the said society shall think proper to appoint. |
Affairs to be managed
by a president,
&c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the present members
of the said
society, and their successors, by their corporate name, 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, United
States stock, bank stock, registered debt, or other public securities
within this state, by the gift, purchase or devise, of or from any
person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, 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 charitable
uses of the said society; Provided nevertheless, that the said
corporation, or body politic, shall not at any one time hold or possess
property real, personal or mixed, exceeding in total value the
sum of fifty thousand dollars. |
Corporation may
hold property.
Proviso. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the members of
the said corporation,
and their successors, may meet together on the first Monday
of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventeen, at some convenient place in the city of Baltimore, or
in the precincts thereof, and on the same day annually for ever
thereafter, and then and there elect the officers of the said society,
and enact such by-laws as may be necessary for assuring and carrying
into effect the benevolent purposes of this act; Provided, such
rules, regulations, and by-laws, be not repugnant to the constitution
and laws of the United States, of the state of Maryland, or of
the corporation of the city of Baltimore. |
Members to meet
and organize company. |
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. |
Appointments
heretofore made to
be continued. |
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, matters and demands whatsoever,
and that all legal process that may be hereafter instituted |
Corporation enabled
to sue, &c.
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