1865.

LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAP. 154.

proportions agreeably to the existing laws shall be fix-

ed, which in the particular cases may he payable by

the Commissioners and the city of Baltimore respect-

Part by city and part by county

ively, and only such proportioned parts of the charge

shall he payable by said commissioners in behalf of the

county, and by the register, or the officer on behalf of

the said city respectively.

CHAPTER 154.

Passed Mar 9, 1831

An act for the incorporation of St. Tammany Lodge, No.

25, of the Order of Independent Odd Fellows, in

Queen Anne's county.

Person incorpora-ted

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That Thomas H. Ford, Charles Robinson,

Nehemiah Bailey, Joseph K. Cook, Robert Goldsbo-

rough, Jun., Thomas Hughey, Robert P. Chilton, Ben-

jamin Seegar, William F. Parrott, Nathaniel Crisp,

William Reese, Robert Floyd, Anderton B. Peters,

William H. Wilmer, Samuel L. Wright, James Dil-

len, Jeptha Bruce, George B. Baxter, William Chain-

bers, of Richard, Oakley Haddaway, John Evans,

Thomas Sutton, William H, Foster, Clayton Wright,

Thomas J. Neavitt, Thomas Kinsey, John Cecil, Ste-

phen J. Bradley, and William Briscoe, the officers and

members of St. Tammany Lodge, number twenty-five,

pf the Order of the Independent Odd Fellows, in Queen

Anns' county, and their successors be, and they are

hereby declared to be a community, corporation and

Style

body politic forever, by the name, style, and title, of

Saint Tammany Lodge, number twenty-five, of the

Order of Independent Odd Fellows; and by that name

Powers granted

they and their successors, shall and may at all times

hereafter, be capable in law, to have, receive and re-

tain to them and their successors, property real and

personal; also devises and bequests of any person or

persons, bodies corporate or politic, capable of mak-

ing the same, and the same at their pleasure to trans-

fer or dispose of, in such manner as they may think

proper; provided always, that the said corporation or