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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 313.

AN ACT to extend the charter of the " Maryland

Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the members of the Maryland

Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts,

and those who shall hereafter become members, shall

Incorporate

be and are hereby incorporated a body corporate by

the name of the " Maryland Institute for the Pro-

motion of the Mechanic Arts," and by that name

shall have succession and be able to sue and be sued,

plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered

unto in any court of law and equity ; to make, have

and use a common seal, and the same to alter or

Receive do-
nations, &c.

renew at pleasure ; to receive donations, gifts, grants,
devises, bequests or other conveyances of money,

goods, chattels, effects, lands, tenements and estates

of any kind whatsoever, and the same as also all

property now owned by said institute, to hold, use,

occupy and enjoy, lease, sell, mortgage, convey or

otherwise encumber or dispose of as they may deem

proper, and generally do all such acts, matters and

things as may be necessary to carry into effect the

objects of said corporation ; provided always that

the property owned by said corporation shall not
exceed in value the sum of two hundred and fifty

thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corpo-

ration shall be composed of the present members

How com-

thereof, and those manufacturers, mechanics, artisans

posed.

and persons friendly to the mechanic arts who shall

hereafter become members, in such manner and upon

such terms as the constitution and by-laws of the

corporation may require.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the objects of

Objects to be
accomplished

said corporation shall be the encouragement and
promotion of manufactures and the mechanic and
useful arts, by the establishment of schools and pop-

ular lectures upon the sciences connected with them,

the formation of schools of art and design, providing

a library, reading-room, and cabinet of minerals,