GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOE.

1831

suggestion shall be made, to order and direct the record of

CHAP. 314.

proceedings in such suit or action to be transmitted to the

judges of any county court within the district for trial, not-

withstanding the first proviso in said section.

CHAPTER 314.

An act to incorporate the Maryland State Colonization So-

Passed Mar.14,1832

ciety

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

Company incorpo-

ryland, That George Hoffman, Thomas Ellicott, Nicholas

rated.

Brice, Alexander Nesbit, Thomas E. Bond, Nathaniel Wil-

liams, John Hoffman, James Howard, Moses Sheppard,

Peter Hoffman, William McDonald, Luke Tiernan, Samuel

Baker, Peter Neff, Soloman Etting, John J. Harrod, John

Gibson, Charles Harper, and John H. B. Latrobe, and

Charles Howard, together with such other persons as may,

at this time be members of the association called the Mary-

land State Colonization Society, and who may hereafter

become members thereof, according to the mode that may

be prescribed in the by-laws of said society, and their suc-

cessors, be, and they are hereby created and declared to be

a corporation and body politic, by the name, style, and title

of "The Maryland State Colonization Society," and by that

name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be liable to

sue and be sued in any court of law or equity in this State,

Powers granted.

and may have and use a common seal, and the same may al-

ter and renew at pleasure, and shall have power to purchase

have and enjoy, to them and their successors, in fee or other-

wise, any lands, tenements, and hereditaments, by gift, grant

bargain and sale, devise, or other act of any person or per-

sons, body politic, or corporate, whatsoever; to take and

receive any sum or sums of money, goods, or chattels, that

shall be given, sold, and bequeathed, to them, in any man-

ner whatsover; and to occupy, use, and enjoy, or sell, trans-

fer, or otherwise dispose of all such lands, tenements, and

hereditaments, money, goods, or chattels, in any such man-
ner as they shall determine to be best adapted, and most
conducive to the object of colonizing, with their own con-

Object[ ].

sent, in Africa, the free people of color or Maryland, and

such slaves as may be manumitted for the purpose, and

which is hereby declared to be the sole and exclusive ob-

ject of the said society; and as soon after the passage of this

Election of officers

act as may be convenient, to elect such officers as they, or

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