GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

ton, John Barnes, William Plater, Walter Latimer, Peter

CHAP. 228.

W. Grain, Walter H- J. Mitchell, William B. Stone, Gus-

favus Brown, Ignatius Stewart, Charles M'Can, Zachariah

Lloyd, Francis Lloyd, John B Lawson, William Alfred

Dulany, George W. Matthews, James Adams, Francis Nal-

ly, James Thompson, John Fergusson, William Fergusson,

John A. Matthews, Edward Pye, Nicholas Stonestreet,

John J. Jenkins, Henry M. Brawner, James Brawner, Alex-

ander Manning, P. A. Orme, William Lloyd, Francis Cle-

ments, Walter H. Robertson, John Robertson, William D.

Briscoe, Henry A. Neal, John B. Wills, Hugh Cox, and all

and every other person or persons, who shall become mem-

bers of the Port Tobacco Savings Bank, in the manner

hereafter mentioned, shall be, and are hereby created and

made a body corporate, by the name and style of the Port

Tobacco Savings Bank, and by that name shall have suc-

cession, and be capable in law to hold and dispose of pro-

perty, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer

and defend, and be answered and defended, in courts of law

or equity, and in any other place; to receive and make all

deeds, transfers, contracts, covenants, conveyances and

grants whatsoever; to make, have and use, a common seal,

and the same to change and renew at pleasure; and gener-

ally, to do every other act or thing necessary to carry into

effect the provisions of this act, or to promote the objects

and designs of said corporation.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That there shall be a meeting

Meeting of mem-

of the members of said corporation, on such day in the

bers.

month of A pril next, and at such place as the five persons

first above named, or any three of them, shall appoint, of

which meeting, they shall give at least ten days notice by

advertisement, at the court house door, in Port Tobacco,

or such other public places as they may deem expedient,

and on such day in the month of April, annually thereafter,

Annual meeting.

and at such place as the by laws of the said corporation

shall provide, fqr the purpose of choosing, from among the

members, nine directors, to manage the affairs of the said

Elect directon.

corporotion, for one year thereafter, and until a new election

of directors shall take place; and the five members first

above named, or any three of them, shall be the judges of

Judges of election

the first election of directors; and the judges of all subse-

quent elections shall be appointed, and notice of these elec-

tions given, and conducted in such manner as the by-laws

shall provide.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the directors for the time

General powers of

being or a majority of them, shall have power to elect a

directors.

president from their own body, or from the other members;