JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

John M. Dyer, Solomon Hunt, David Taub, Jacob Aaron,
Samuel Muntzer, Michael Heilbrunn, Solomon Carvalho,
Joseph Anger, Levi Colimns, Jacob Lieser, Morris A.Co-
hen, Jonas Freedenwalt, S. A. Waterman, Gustavus M.
Heiawald, Kirtz Kayser, Moses Kayser and Carle Sehleck-
tern, and all others who may hereafter become members of
said society, and their successors, are hereby declared to

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be one body corporate forever, by the name, style and title
of the United Hebrew Benevolent Society of Baltimore,
and by that name they shall be and are hereby made able
and capable in law to receive contribution?, and purchase,
possess, enjoy and retain to them and their successors,
lands, tenements, rents, annuities and other hereditaments,
and the same to dispose of in such a manner as they may
judge most conducive to the interest of said society, pro-

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vided, that the said corporation or body politic shall not
at any one time, hold or possess property real, personal or
mixed, exceeding the sum of fifty thousand dollars; and
provided also, that nothing herein contained shall con-
strued to authorise or employ the said society to do or per-

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form any act not necessary to the attainment of the benev-
olent purposes for which the said cociety is herein declared
to be incorporated, nor in any way to exercise the privi-
leges of banking.

Prohibitions

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said society and their
successors, by the aforesaid name, shall forever hereafter
be able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead »nd
be inipleaded fn all or any courts of justice whatfcoever; the
society may have a seal, and alter or break the same at their
pleasure; and the said society may also adopt such consti-
tation, by-laws, rules or regulations as they may deem ne-
cessary for the good government thereof, the authentications
of its acts, and the proper management of its concerns;
Provided that the same shall not be contrary to any provi-
sions of this act, or the Jewish rites, or any law of this
state, or of the United Stales.

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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the affairs of the said
society shall be managed and conducted by a President,
Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, vice-secretary, and
two visitors of the sick, who shall be elected on the first
Monday in September, or within thirty days thereafter in
each and every year.

Officers— election

Sec. 4. And be if enacted, That this act shall continue
and be in force until the year eighteen hundred and forty-
five, and until the end of the next session of the General
Assembly thereafter.

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