| 1818.
CHAP. 80.
Passed Jan. 29, 1819. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. LXXX.
An Act to incorporate the Hager's-Town Female Society for the instruction
of Poor Children. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 296. |
Subscribers incorporated.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Miss Susan Hughes, Mrs. Mary Ann Millegan, Miss Isabella Neill,
Miss Elizabeth Harry, Miss Jane Millegan, Miss Mary Grieves,
Miss Susan Bell, Miss Mary Douglass, and Miss Sophia Pottinger,
together with all the subscribers, and such persons as may become
subscribers in said society, be and they are hereby erected
and declared a body politic and corporate, by the name and style
of The Hager's-Town Female Society for the instruction of Poor
Children, and by that name and style shall, during the continuance
of this act, have succession, and be able to sue and be sued, implead
and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, and to ordain
and establish such by-laws, rules and regulations, as shall appear
necessary for conducting the concerns of said society, and shall
have power to grant, receive, and do all other acts as natural persons,
and may at all times hereafter be persons 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 best calculated to promote the object
of said society; Provided nevertheless, that the said corporation
or body politic shall not at any time hold or possess real, personal,
or mixed property, exceeding in total value the sum of ten thousand
dollars. |
| Trustees appointed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the Rev. John C.
Clay, Alexander
Neill, and John Kennedy, be and they are hereby appointed
trustees of said institution or society, whose duty it shall be to inspect
the books, accounts and proceedings of said society, and correct
the errors that may be committed, (if any,) and in case of the
death or resignation of any or either of the trustees, the vacancy
or vacancies thereby occasioned, shall be filled by the managers of
the society for the time being. |
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Passed Jan. 29, 1819. |
CHAP. LXXXI.
An Act authorising Sarah Bowen, Administratrix de bonis non,
of
Benjamin Y. Bowen, to complete the Collections of the
said Benjamin
Y. Bowen. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 297.
See 1817, ch. 172. |
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Passed Jan. 30, 1819. |
CHAP. LXXXII.
An Act for the relief of Elizabeth Slothour, of Frederick County.
Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 298. A Private Act. |
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Passed Jan. 30, 1819. |
CHAP. LXXXIII.
An Act to authorise the North Branch Toll Bridge Company of Virginia
to build a Bridge over the North Branch of Potomac.
Lib.
TH. No. 6, fol. 298. |
Bridge may be
built at point
which directors |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful |
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