ELIHU B. JACKSON, ESQIURE, GOVERNOR.

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That article four, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "City

of Baltimore," sub-title "Courts," be and the same is hereby

amended by adding an. additional section thereto to follow section

Amended.

one hundred and sixty-nine of said article, and to be known as

"Section one hundred and sixty-nine A," and to read as follows :

SEC. 169 A. If the defendant shall dispute the whole or any

part of the plaintiff's demand in any action brought under the

provisions of the three foregoing sections and upon trial of the

Additional

case the plaintiff shall recover a judgment for any portion of his

costs.

demand so disputed, then the plaintiff shall be allowed in addition

to the costs of the suit reasonable counsel fees to be fixed by the

court, said fees not to be less, than twenty-five dollars nor more

than one hundred dollars.

Approved April 8, 1890.

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CHAPTER 434.

AN ACT to incorporate the Marist society.

WHEREAS, the Reverend James Gibbons, Reverend Alphonsus

Magnien, Reverend Edward R. Dyer, Reverend Thomas Henry

and Reverend Jacob James Joyce, by their petition to this Gen-

eral Assembly of Maryland, have set forth that they are all citi-

zens of the United States, and a majority of them citizens of this

State, that they have formed themselves into a society by the

Preamble

name of the Marist society for religious, educational, literary and

charitable purposes, and are about to purchase in fee-simple land

in this State upon which they propose to erect suitable buildings

for a residence for the members of said association and for a school

and to apply their means so far as may be possible to gratuities,

and they have prayed an act of incorporation for the more con-

venient holding and transmission of their property, which being

reasonable and in accordance with previous policy of this State ;

therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the said James Gibbons, Alphonsus Magnien, Edward R.

Dyer, Thomas Henry and Jacob James Joyce and their successors

be and they are hereby created and made a body politic and cor-

porate by the name of the Marist society, and by that name shall

have succession with full power and authority to provide for the

Holy cor-
porable.

admission and rejection of members, and to make all by-laws

necessary for the government of the society, to have and to use

a common seal, to purchase and take by deed or otherwise any

real, personal or mixed estate, for the purpose aforesaid, and the

same or any part thereof, to sell and dispose of at their pleasure,

and to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded; but this charier