| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
authorised to be raised is not deemed sufficient for the purpose
therein mentioned; therefore, |
1817.
CHAP. 185. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
James Barroll, George Hayne, Nathaniel Pearce, and Henry D.
Sollers, be added to the managers who not survive and were appointed
managers by the act to which this is a supplement, and that
they, or a majority of them, shall be authorised to proceed according
to the provisions of the said act to raise a sum not exceeding
fifteen thousand dollars, provided the said commissioners, or a majority
of them, shall execute a bond pursuant to the provisions of
the act to which this is a supplement, in the penalty of thirty thousand
dollars. |
Additional managers. |
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CHAP. CLXXXVI.
An Act to incorporate the Roman Catholic Free School in the City
of
Baltimore. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 119. |
Passed Feb. 14, 1818. |
WHEREAS, the Most Reverend Ambrose Marechal, Archbishop
of Baltimore, the Reverend Enoch Fenwick, rector of St. Peter's
Church in the city of Baltimore, and sundry other persons, members
of the said church, have associated for the purpose of maintaining
and educating poor children, and instructing them in the
christian religion, and have petitioned to be incorporated; and this
general assembly being willing to encourage all good institutions,
therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the Most Reverend Archbishop Ambrose Marechal, the Reverend
Enoch Fenwick, John Hillen, Thomas C. Jenkins, John Parsons,
Patrick Tiernan, David Williamson, junior, and John Sinnott, and
their successors in office, who shall be duly elected in the manner
herein after mentioned, are hereby declared to be one community,
corporation and body politic, for ever hereafter, by the name and
style of The President and Directors of the Roman Catholic Free
School in the City of Baltimore, and by that name they 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, or for terms of years, life, lives or otherwise,
and also goods, chattels or effects, of what nature, quality, or kind
soever, by the gift, bargain, sale or devise, of any person or persons,
bodies politic or corporate, capable to make the same, and the
same to grant, devise, alien or dispose of, in such manner as they
may judge most conducive to the benevolent and charitable use of
the said association; Provided always, that the said corporation
or
body politic shall not at any time hold or possess property, real,
person or mixed, exceeding in annual value the sum of five thousand
dollars. |
Incorporation—
style. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the Most Reverend
Archbishop
Ambrose Marechal, the Reverend Enoch Fenwick, John Hillen,
Thomas C. Jenkins, John Parsons, Patrick Tiernan, David Williamson,
junior, and John Sinnott, be and are hereby declared
managers and directors of the said corporation, and that they shall
have power and authority to elect a president and vice-president
out of the board of directors aforesaid, and when a vacancy shall
happen therein by death or resignation, they shall have power and |
Managers and directors. |
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