| 1816.
CHAP. 163.
Passed Feb. 1, 1817. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. CLXIII.
An Act to Incorporate the Saint-Andrew's Society of the City of
Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 305. |
Society incorporated.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Robert Gilmour, John Swan, David Williamson, James Campbell,
William Morris, Richard B. Magruder, Andrew Burt, James Heron
and George Hill, and others that now are, or may hereafter
become, members of the Saint Andrew's Society of the city of
Baltimore, and their successors, are hereby declared to be one
community, corporation and body politic, for ever, by the name of
The Saint-Andrew's Society of Baltimore, 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, that
the whole amount of property, real, personal or mixed, which the
said corporation or body politic shall at any time hold or possess,
shall not exceed in total value the sum of fifty thousand dollars. |
| Privileges of corporation. |
2. 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 to have
and keep a common seal for their use, and the same, at the will
and pleasure of them and their successors, to change, alter 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 or necessary to corporations
of this kind, and what may be necessary to the corporation
herein constituted, to enable the members of the said society duly
and fully to execute all things touching and concerning the design
and intent of their said corporation, for the benevolent succour
and relief of such distressed persons as the regulations and by-laws
of said corporation authorise, and generally to effect the
charitable objects of their institution. |
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Passed Jan. 31, 1817.
* 1715, ch. 47. |
CHAP. CLXIV.
A Further Additional Supplementary act to the Act*, entitled, An
act
for Quieting Possessions, Enrolling Conveyances, and
securing the
Estates of Purchasers. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol.
306.
See 1807, ch. 154, and the acts there referred to. |
Deeds in certain
cases to have effect. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
where any deed, conveyance, or instrument of writing, intending
to pass, convey, and transfer, or purporting to pass, convey and
transfer, the right, title, interest and estate, of any feme covert,
residing or being without the limits of this state, of, in and to,
any |
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