GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

CHAPTER 385.

CHAP. 286.

A further additional supplement to the act concerning Crimes
and Punishments.

Passed Mar.10,1832

Section I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-

Authority tome—

ryland, That the directors of the Maryland Penitentiary,

preference not
granted.

shall have power to institute and prosecute to judgment and

execution, any suit or suits in the name of the state of Ma-

ryland, for their use, in any court of law or equity, as fully

as if the said directors were a body corporate, and as such

entitled to trade and sue in the name aforesaid, and in every

suit that shall he instituted by them in the name, and for the

use aforesaid; Provided however, That the lien and prefer-

Proviso.

ences incident to claims and suits of the state of Maryland,

shall not be deemed to attach to any suits instituted and

prosecuted as aforesaid, by the directors of the Peniten-

tiary.

CHAPTER 286.

An act to incorporate the Savings Institution of Dorchester

Passed Mar. 9,1832

County, to be located in the town of Cambridge.

Section. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-

Incorporation

ryland, That Josiah Bayly, John C. Henry, James B.

granted.

Steele, Thomas Hayward, Arthur Bell, William B. Eccles-

ton, Ezekiel kichardson, Thomas White, Henry Burn,

Joseph E. Muse, Jeremiah Colston, Henry Page, William

Rea, Nathaniel G. Eccleston, Joseph Byus, James Pattison,

(T. P.) John Griffith, Joseph K. Travers, Francis P. Phelps,

Minos Adams, William Wheatley, Francis Turpin, Isaac

F. Williams, Noah Richardson, Reuben Tall, Levi D.

Travers, Robert F Tubman, William W. Lake, Henry L.

Macnamara, John N. Steele, Thomas H. Hicks, William

Jackson, Joseph Nichols, John Travers, William A. Lake,

Thomas C. Jones and Martin L. Wright, and all and every

other person or persons hereafter becoming members of the

Savings Institution of Dorchester county, to be located in

the town of Cambridge, in the manner hereafter mentioned,

shall be, and are hereby created and made a corporation

and body politic, by the name and style of the Savings In-

stitution of Dorchester county, and by that name shall have

succession, and be capable by law, to hold and dispose or

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