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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ley, Charles M Brisbee, Henry C. Hedges, John A.

Armstrong, William R. Hazlett, William B. Ken-

nedy, Jones Woodyatt, G. T. Campbell, John Ham

Incorpora-

Perry, John Gibson, Joshua J. Walton, W. S. New-

tois.

bury, A. G. Walling, Samuel F. Grovener, Isaac A.

Sheppard, James B. Nicholson, M. Richards Muckle,

John Hampden Field, Lindsay Anderson, Gilbert

F. Robbins, William S. Johnson, Alien Jenckes,

Silas Johnstone, Joseph L. Weakley, George B.
Boyles, Robert Thompson, I. C. Stafford, M. D. Her-

ring, R. A. Blandford, J. A. Haynie, E. M. Wilson,

John N. Gale, George H. Bigelow, Nelson C. Hyde,

Alfred R. Courtney, James B. Blanks, Jacob R. Rob-

inson, W. W. Evans, J. A. Miller, George L. Hen-

sel, Thomas S. Spates, Myron B. Lindsley, John G.
Clark, Theodore B. Elliott, George E. Weatherby

and H. Altman, the present officers and members of

the "Sovereign Grand Lodge " of the Independent

Order of Odd Fellows, and their successors, be and

Declared to

they are declared to be a community corporation

be a body

and a body politic by the name and style and title

politic.

aforesaid, and by that name they and their suc-

cessors shall and may at all times hereafter be capa-

ble in law to have, receive and retain to them and

their successors, property, real and personal, also

devises or bequests of any person or persons, bodies,

corporate or politic, capable of making the same,

and the same at their pleasure to transfer or dispose

of in such manner as they think proper ; provided

always that the said corporation or body politic

shall not at any time hold or possess property, real,

personal or mixed, exceeding in annual value the

sum of twenty thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corpora-

May sue and

tion and their successors, by the name and style and

be sued.

title aforesaid, shall be forever thereafter capable in

law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,

answer and be answered unto, defend and be de-

fended in all or any Courts of Justice and before

all and any judge, officer or person whatsoever, in

all and singular actions, matters or demands what-

soever.

Have com-

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may

mon seal.

be lawful for the said corporation to have a common