| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CLVI.
An Act to Incorporate the Maryland Hospital. Lib. TH.
No. 5,
fol. 296. |
1816.
CHAP. 56.
Passed Jan. 29, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Henry Payson, James Hindman, John Hillen, William Lorman,
James Mosher, William McDonald, David Winchester, George
Warner, William Ross, James Wilson, Daniel Howland, and
James Carnighan, be and they, and the president and vice-president
hereinafter named, are hereby declared to be a body corporate
and politic, by the name, style and title, of The President and
Visitors of the Maryland Hospital, and they, and their successors,
by the same name, are hereby made, created, erected, constituted,
and declared in fact and name, one body politic and corporate for
ever, and shall by the same name have perpetual succession, and
shall and may by the same name be persons in the law to sue and
be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto,
defend and be defended, in all courts, and elsewhere, in all manner
of actions, suits, complaints, pleas, causes, matters and demands
whatsoever, as fully and amply as any citizen of this state may or
can be sued, implead or be impleaded, defend or be defended, by
any lawful ways or means whatsoever. |
Company incorporated. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all that lot, piece,
or parcel of
ground, heretofore, on the eighteenth day of May, seventeen hundred
and ninety-eight, conveyed by Jeremiah Yellott to the mayor
and city council of Baltimore, together with all the buildings, improvements,
and appurtenances thereon and thereto belonging, be
and they are hereby vested in the said president and visitors of the
Maryland hospital, and their successors for ever, for and as a
common state hospital; and that the said president and visitors of
the Maryland hospital shall for ever hereafter be persons capable
and able in law to purchase, take, hold, receive and enjoy, to
them and their successors, any messuages, tenements, houses, and
real estate whatsoever, and all other hereditaments of whatsoever
nature, kind and quality they be, in fee-simple, for term of life or
lives, or in any other manner howsoever, and also any goods, chattel,
and personal estate whatsoever; and that they, and their successors,
shall have full power and authority, by the same name, to
give, grant, sell, lease, demise, and dispose of, the same real
estate and hereditaments whatsoever; for life or lives, or years, or
for ever, and also all goods, chattels, and personal estate whatsoever,
at their will and pleasure, as they shall judge to be most
beneficial and advantageous to the good and charitable ends and
purposes of this act; and that it shall and may be lawful for them,
and their successors, for ever hereafter, to have a common seal, to
serve for the causes and business of them, and their successors,
and the same seal to change, alter, break, and make new, from
time to time, at their will and pleasure. |
Certain lot vested
in president and
visitors. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforesaid Henry
Payson, James
Hndman, John Hillen, William Lorman, James Mosher, William
McDonald, David Winchester, George Warner, William Ross,
James Wilson, Daniel Howland and James Carnighan, or a majority
of them, shall be and they are hereby authorised, empowered
and required, to assemble at any place in the city of Baltimore
by them agreed upon, on the first Monday in June next, and elect |
Election of president
and visitors. |
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