ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Murray, John W. Charlton, Francis T. Little, Joseph H. Elliot,

Charles A. Benjamin, John D. Keinzer, Augustus AV. Mather,

James E. Caton and Jarret N. Gilbert, and their successors, duly

elected and appointed in the manner hereinafter directed, be and

they are hereby made, declared and constituted a body politic and

corporate, to have perpetual succession by the name, style and

To incor-
porate.

title of the trustees of the Maryland annual conference of the

methodist protestant church, and by that name, style and title

are hereby made and declared able and capable in law to take, re-

ceive, hold, possess and acquire by gift, devise, bequest,, grant or

otherwise, land, tenements, goods, chattels, estate and property of

any kind whatsoever, and the same again to grant, devise, alien

or dispose of; provided, that the clear yearly income of the real

and personal estate of said corporation, shall not exceed the sum

of fifty thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That no misnomer of the said cor-

poration and its successors, shall defeat or annul any purchase,

gift, grant, devise or bequest to or from the said corporation; pro-

vided the intent of the party or parties shall sufficiently appear

Misnomer,

upon the face of the gift, will, grant or other writing whereby

any estate, interest or property was intended to pass to or from

the said corporation.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said corporation and its

successors, shall have full power and authority to make, have and

Seal.

use a common seal, with such device and inscription as it shall

see fit and proper, and the same to break, alter and renew at

pleasure.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation and its

successors by the name, style and title aforesaid, shall be able

and capable in law to sue and be sued, contract and be con-

tracted with, plead and be impleaded in any court, or before any

To sue.

judge or justice in any and all manner of suits, complaints, pleas,

matters and demands of whatever nature, kind or form they may

be, and all and every matter and thing to do in as full and effectual

a manner as any other person or persons, bodies politic and cor-

porate within this State can or may.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said corporation and its

successors shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to

make, ordain and establish by-laws, regulations and ordinances,

and do everything incident and needful for the support and due

By-laws,

government of said corporation and managing the funds and

&c.

revenues thereof; provided, the said by-laws, regulations and

ordinances shall not be repugnant to the constitution and laws

of the United States, or of the State of Maryland, or to the con-

stitution, discipline, rules and regulations of the methodist

protestant church.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall con-