FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 173.

AN ACT supplementary to an act entitled an act to incor-

porate the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph's in Freder-

ick County passed at the December session of the General

Assembly of Maryland, in the year eighteen hundred and

sixteen, chapter ninety-five.

WHEREAS, Elizabeth A. Seton and others associated with

her, being unmarried women, and above the age of twenty-

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one years, formed themselves into a religious association

by the name of the " Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph's,"

for the purpose, under the superintendence of certain clergy-

men of their religious persuasion, of devoting their lives to

works of piety, charity and usefulness and especially for

the care of the sick, the succor of aged, infirm and necessi-

tous persons, and the education of young females, and

WHEREAS, by an act of the General Assembly of Mary-

land passed at the December session, eighteen hundred

and sixteen, chapter ninety-five, the said Elizabeth A. Seton,

and others associated with her, and their successors here-

after to become "Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph," ac-

cording to the rules and regulations of their association

for the time being, were incorporated by the corporate name

and style of the "Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph's,"

with perpetual succession and power, to sue and be sued,

and to have and use a common seal, and to take and hold

in fee simple, or otherwise ; the farm in Frederick County

on which they now dwell, and any other lands and real

estate and any personal and mixed estate or property, to

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sell, lease, dispose of and convey in as full and ample

manner as any person or body corporate holding any lands

or property, real personal or mixed, may sell, lease, dispose

of and convey the same ; and to collect and receive the

rents, profits, proceeds and emoluments of all property by

them so held or possessed, and apply the same to the uses

of their said association according to the rules and regula-

tions established from time to time for the government

thereof, provided, always, that they shall not at any time

hold, use, possess or enjoy more than eight hundred acres

of land, nor shall their personal estate at any time exceed

in value the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and whereas, it

is represented to this General Assembly, that the said cor-

poration of the " Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph's " has

been eminently successful since its incorporation in the

year eighteen hundred and sixteen to the present time far

beyond the expectation of its promoter and originator, and