FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Monument Committee, the said accounts having been sub-

mitted to and approved by the comptroller of the State

treasury.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 544.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact section one of chapter one

hundred of the acts of the General Assembly of Mary-

land, passed at its December session eighteen hundred

and forty, relating to the incorporation of Chosen Friends

Lodge of number thirty-four, of the order of Independ-

ent Odd Fellows, and to grant additional powers to said

corporation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the officers and members of Chosen Friends

Chosen

Lodge of number thirty-four of the order of Independent

Friends
Lodge

Odd Fellows and their successors, be and they are hereby

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declared to be a community corporation body politic for-

ever by the name, style and title of Chosen Friends Lodge,

number thirty-four, of the Independent Order of Odd Fel-

lows and by that name they and their successors shall and

may at all times hereafter be capable in law to have, receive

hold and retain to them and their successors, property, real

personal and mixed also devises and bequests of any person

or persons capable of making the same, and the same at

their pleasure to transfer mortgage or dispose of in such

manner as they may think proper ; provided always that the

said corporation or body politic, shall not at any time

hold or possess property, real, personal or mixed exceeding

in value the sum of thirty thousand dollars ; and provided

further, that all rights acquired by the officers and mem-

bers of Chosen Friends Lodge, of number thirty-four, of

the Order of Independent Odd Fellows under an act of the

General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its December

session eighteen hundred and forty, chapter one hundred,

be and the same are hereby declared to be in full force and

effect.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in order to enable the

said corporation to acquire by purchase, real and personal

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estate in the City of Cumberland, Maryland to be applied

bonds.

by it to the objects of incorporation and such other pur-