772 ARTICLE 23.

An. Code, sec. 337. 1906, ch. 472i.

272. On and after April 15, 1906, no common carrier shall refuse to
receive at any station, wharf or stopping place, a quantity of milk, cream,
buttermilk or skim-milk in a unit of two (2) gallons, three (3) gallons, five
(5) gallons, seven (7) gallons, or ten (10) gallons, or groups of these
units.

An. Code, sec. 338. 1906, ch. 472 1/2.

273. Any breach of sections 271 and 272 shall be deemed a misde-
meanor and the common carrier shall be fined fifty (50) dollars for the
first offense and one hundred (100) dollars for each succeeding offense.

Religious Corporations.

An. Code, sec. 339. 1904, sec. 301. 1888, sec. 205. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 156.

274. In every church, religious society or congregation, of whatever
sect, order or denomination, or which shall at any time hereafter be known
and acknowledged in the State, and protected in the free and full exercise of
its religion by the constitution and the laws thereof, there shall be sufficient
power and authority in all persons above twenty-one years of age belonging
to any such church, society or congregation, to elect, at their discretion, cer-
tain, sober and discreet persons, not less than four, nor more than twelve,
which persons so elected, upon being registered, as hereinafter directed,
shall be constituted a body politic or corporate to act as trustees in the name
and behalf of the particular church, society or congregation for which they
are respectively chosen, and to manage the estate, property, interest and
inheritance of the same.

Suits.

A corporation formed under the act of 1802, ch. 111, can only be sued in its
corporate name; and a suit against the trustees individually designating them as
trustees ,of the corporation, and omitting part of the corporate name, is not a suit
against the corporate body. Tartar v. Gibbs, 24 Md. 335.

Under the act of 1802, ch. 111, suit might be brought by a minority of the trus-
tees (constituting a quorum for the transaction of business), in their corporate
capacity against a majority of the trustees individually. African Methodist, etc.,
Church v. Carmack, 2 Md. Ch. 143.

Devises.

This, and the two following sections, referred to in upholding a devise to the
Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends, a corporation, in trust for the benefit of a
school under the charge and control of said corporation. Erhardt v. Baltimore
Monthly Meeting, 93 Md. 681.

Devises and bequests for charitable uses are not to be held void by reason of the
uncertainty of the donees, provided the will contains directions for the formation
of a corporation to take the same, 'and provided such corporation is formed within
twelve months—art. 93, sec. 337.

Generally.

This, and the following sections, do not authorize the incorporation of the mem-
bers of a congregation or of the congregation itself, but only certain persons belonging
to, and selected by, the congregation. The male members of a church are invested
with no yisitorial power over ministers or trustees or interests in the property of the
corporation. The powers granted to the trustees apply only to the management of
the property, no authority being given over matters of doctrine or discipline. This
and the following sections, are an amendment of the act of 1802, ch. 111. Shaeffer v.