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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
in the before mentioned school, they shall be subject to the
same regulations that apprentices are by the laws of this state, until
it shall be thought proper by the female directors of said school
to bind out such female child or children, which the said directors
are hereby directed to do, for the term and in the manner that
other female shall or may be bound; Provided, that nothing herein
be considered as abridging the security afforded to such person by
the law concerning apprentices. |
1807.
CHAP. 145.
to same regulations
that apprentices
are.
Proviso. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforesaid trustees,
and their
successors in office, duly elected, by the name aforesaid, shall be
able and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in all or any
court of justice whatever, and also to make, have and use, a common
seal, and the same to break, alter and renew, at pleasure; and
also that the female directors, now in office, under and by virtue of
the act of assembly, passed at November session, eighteen hundred
and one *, entitled, An act incorporating a society for the maintenance
and education of poor female children, by the name of The
Female Humane Associated Charity School, shall be and the same
are continued in office until the second Tuesday in April next. |
Trustees made
able to sue and be
sued, &c.
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7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said act of
assembly, entitled,
An act incorporating a society for the maintenance and education
of poor female children, by the name of The Female Humane Association
Charity School, shall be and the same is hereby repealed;
Provided always, that all acts done under the said law, consistent
with the same, be and the same are hereby confirmed and made
valid in law. |
Act repealed.
Proviso. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act of incorporation,
and
every part thereof, shall be good and available in law, in all things,
according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be construed,
reputed and adjudged, in all cases most favourably on behalf
of said institution, so as most effectually to answer the valuable
ends intended thereby. |
This act to be
available in law,
&c. |
9. AND, whereas married women and femes-covert
seem to have
been the original founders of this benevolent society, so honourable
to themselves and the community at large, and doubts may arise
whether, in point of law, women, so situated, can exercise the right
of voting without special provision to that effect, BE IT ENACTED,
That where any married woman or feme covert shall be a contributor
to the said society or association, and shall have paid five dollars
at least to the aforesaid charity within one year next immediately
preceding the day of any election, the said contributor shall
have and enjoy the right of voting at said election, in as full and
ample a manner as if she were a feme sole. |
Married women,
contributors, to
enjoy the right of
voting. |
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CHAP. CXLVI.
An Act to alter the time for holding the County Court of Montgomery
County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 485. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in
future the fall session of the county court for the county of Montgomery
shall be held on the second Monday in the month of November
yearly, and every year.
See 1805, ch. 65, s. 21. |
Fall session to be
held on second
Monday of November. |
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