EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the American Funeral Benefit Association of Bal-

Officers and
directors of

timore City, incorporated under the General Laws of this

same.

State by charter duly approved and recorded among the

Charter Records of the Superior Court of Baltimore City,

in Libers R. Q. No. 36, folio 91, and R. O. No. 42, folio

339, etc., of which association Harry L. Brown, P. H. Felt-

housen, Lillie L. Johnson, John H. Connor, C. W. Lewis,

J. T. Taylor, of Baltimore, Md. ; L. F. Page, S. S. Banham,

of Brooklyn, N. Y.; E. W. Hartz, of Harrisburg, Pa., and

Hallie E. Merritt, of Washington, D. C., are the officers and

directors, being successors of the incorporators thereof, they

and their successors shall have perpetual succession as such,

and they shall be and are hereby authorized to increase the

number of directors for said association to not mon. than fif-

teen at any time it be deemed necessary and advisable; that

the principal office of said association shall be located in Bal-

Location of
principal of-

timore City, Maryland, and that the president, treasurer and

fice.

secretary thereof "shall be resident of the City of Baltimore

and State of Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That said association shall be ca-

pable in law to purchase and retain property, real, personal and

Right to pur-
chase proper-

mixed, and to transfer, mortgage or otherwise dispose of same ;

ty, loan

and said association is authorized to loan its funds in hand upon

funds, etc.

good security as approved by the board of directors ; and said

association shall have authority to create and maintain a reserve

fund for the benefit of its obligations.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That said association may sue and

be sued, answer and defend in any court of law or equity;

Privileges and
immunities.

may have use and at pleasure change "a common seal, and in

general exercise all such rights, privileges and immunities

as by law are incident or necessary to this association, and to

enable the members of said association, through its conventions,

to exercise all things concerning the design for which this asso-

ciation was formed, as shall be regulated in the constitution

and by-laws as now formed or hereafter amended.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That said association shall have

power to make contracts with councils of all patriotic, frater-

Power to con-

nal and social organizations, orders or bodies for the payment

tract with pa-
triotic and

of funeral benefits upon the death of members of said councils,

fraternal or-
ganizations

organizations, orders or bodies; said funeral benefit, however,

for payment

not to exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars. That

of funeral
benefits.

said American Funeral Benefit Association, by and through

its board of directors, or by its conventions, shall have power