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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 404.

AN ACT to incorporate Lonaconing Lodge, number eighty-

five of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Lona-

coning, Allegany County, Maryland.

WHEREAS, an association of citizens exists in the town

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of Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland, under this

name, style and title of Lonaconing Lodge, number eighty-

five, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, attached to

the Grand Lodge of Maryland, and

WHEREAS, the said association has applied for an act of

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incorporation in order that thereby its existence may be

rendered more secure, and that it may be enabled to carry

out with greater efficiency, the important objects for which

it was formed ; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Incor-

Maryland, That Robert Thompson, Peter Fisher, Alexander

porated.

Boag, Jr., Hector Cochrane, James Ingles, Joseph Graham,

John Cutlebertson, James Nichols, John Abbott, Sr.,
Alexander Smith, Samuel Brown, Thomas Cochrane,

James McFarlane, Daniel Jones, and John Smith, and

such other persons as are now members of said lodge, and

their successors, be and they are hereby created a corpora-

tion, by the name, style and title of Lonaconing Lodge,

number eighty -five, of the Independent Order of Odd

Fellows, and by that name shall have perpetual succession ;

may sue and be sued, answer and defend in any court of

law or equity, and may adopt a constitution, ordain and

establish such by-laws, rules and regulations as may appear

necessary and proper for conducting the concerns of said

corporation as shall not be contrary to the laws of this

State, the United States, or the law of the Grand Lodge,

and the same may change and alter or amend, as may appear

proper, and may have, use, and at pleasure, change a

common seal, and in general exercise all such rights,

privileges and immunities, as by law are incident or

necessary to the corporation herein constituted, and to

enable the members of said order to exercise all things con-

cerning the design of the corporation, for the benevolent

relief of the sick and distressed, and for the promotion of

their purposes generally.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the constitution, rules and

Rules, regu
lations, &c.

regulations of Lonaconing Lodge, number eighty-five, of
the In dependent Order of Odd Fellows, shall be the con-

stitution, rules and regulations for the government of the

corporation hereby created until the same shall be regularly