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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Declaration.

P. Sanders, E. D. Farnsworth, Fred. D. Stuart and
Cornelius A. Logan, the present officers and mem-
bers of the Grand Lodge of the United States of the
Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, and their suc-
cessors, be, and they are hereby declared to be a
community corporation, and body politic, by the
name and style and title aforesaid, and by that name
they and their successors, shall and may at all times
hereafter be capable in law to have, receive and re-
tain to them and their successors, property real and
personal, also, devises or bequests of any person or
persons, bodies corporate or politic capable of mak-
ing the same, and the same at their pleasure to trans-

Proviso.

fer or dispose of in such manner as they think pro-
per; provided always, that the said corporation or
body politic shall not at any time hold or possess
property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding in an-
nual value the sum of twenty thousand dollars.

Powers.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
and their successors by the name, and style and title
aforesaid, shall be forever thereafter 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 Courts of Justice, and before all and any
judge, officers or persons whatsoever, in all and sin-
gular actions, matters or demands whatsoever.

Common seal

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful for the said corporation to have a common
seal for their use, and the same at their will and
pleasure to change, alter and make anew from time
to time as they may think best, and shall in general
have and exercise all such rights, privileges and im-
munities as by law are incident or necessary to cor-
porations, and what may be necessary to the corpor-
ation herein constituted.

Construed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
shall be so construed as to authorize the said corpor-
ation to issue any note, token, scrip, devise or other
evidence of debt, to be used as currency.

Reserved.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That the General Assem-
bly of Maryland may at any time repeal this act.