WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 411

	CHAPTER 269.
	AN ACT to change the name of Fell's Point Lodge,
	number forty-four, of the Independent Order of
	Odd Fellows, to Thomas Wildey Lodge, number
	forty-four, of the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
	lows ; to extend the charter of said lodge under
	the latter name ; to make valid the acts of said
	lodge, and authorize it to hold property in the
	name of Thomas Wildey Lodge, number forty-four,
	of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
	WHEREAS Fell's Point Lodge, number forty-four,
	of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was duly
	incorporated by an act of the General Assembly of
	Maryland, passed at December session, eighteen
	hundred and forty-six, chapter two hundred and
	fifty-five ; and whereas by an act of the General As-
	sembly of Maryland, passed at December session,	Preamble.
	eighteen hundred and sixty-one, chapter one hun-
	dred and twenty-seven, said body corporate was au-
	thorized to assume and use the name of Thomas
	Wildey Lodge, number forty-four, of the Indepen-
	dent Order of Odd Fellows, provided said body
	corporate should accept the provisions of said last
	mentioned act within the time and in the manner
	therein required, which it was unable to do for want
	of time.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That the name of Fell's Point	Change of
	Lodge, number forty-four, of the Independent Order	name.
	of Odd Fellows, incorporated by the General As-
	sembly of Maryland at its December session, eigh-
	teen hundred and forty-six, chapter two hundred
	and fifty-five, be and the same is hereby changed to
	Thomas Wildey Lodge, number forty-four, of the
	Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, and that the
	charter of said lodge be and the same is hereby ex-	Charter ex-
	tended and continued in force for the period of thirty	tended.
	years from the date of its expiration, and until the
	close of the session of the General Assembly of Ma-
	ryland held next thereafter, by and in the name of