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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 87.

AN ACT to incorporate the Home for the Aged of Frederick

City ; whereas, Ann Grahame Ross, Margaret S. Brunner,

Anna B. Helfenstein, Margaret E. S. Hood, Sara Andrew

Shafer, Cornelia Ringgold Ross, Eleanor Murdoch John-

son, Emma J. Smith, Virginia Markell Baker, Agnes

Fearhake, Ruth Gouverneur Johnson, Eleanor Murdoch

Tyler, Rebecca B. Winebrener, Anne C. Kunkel, Caroline

Matilda Markell, Amelia Mary Tyson, Marv E. McKinney,

Ellen Virginia Doll, Florence Trail, Willie Anna Walker

Stauffer, all residents of Frederick County, State of Mary-

land, have associated themselves together as a society or

association by the name of "The Home for the Aged of

Frederick City," for the benevolent purpose of rendering

charitable aid, so far as it may be in their power, to aged

persons residents of Frederick County, or elsewhere, and

providing a home with the comforts thereof for such aged

persons, who may need the same in accordance with the

rules and regulations, which said society or association

may establish or adopt, and for the purpose of carrying

into effect their benevolent plans, have prayed that trus-

tees may be incorporated with power to receive, hold and

dispose of contributions, donations, gifts, grants, devises

and bequests of all kinds of property, estate and effects

to a limited extent. Therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That Charles W. Ross, William P. Maulsby, Jr.,

Henry Williams, George Markell, W. Irving Parsons and
Edward S. Eichelberger and their successors in office, elected

in the manner hereinafter provided, shall be and they are

Trustees oi
Home for

hereby incorporated and made a body politic by the corporate

Aged of
Frederick.

name of the "Trustees of the Home for the Aged of Fred-

erick City," and by that name shall have perpetual succession

and be capable in law of receiving and holding in trust and

of using 'and disposing of all kinds of gifts, grants, convey-

ances, donations, devises, and bequests of estate, real, per-

soual and mixed property and effects not exceeding in amount

one hundred thousand dollars, and by the said name may

sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and defend,

may have and use a common seal, and the same may alter

and renew at pleasure, and may exercise all the other powers

incident to corporations aggregate, and all powers, rights