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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 123.
An act to incorporate the Maryland Academy of Science and Literature. |
95
Dec. Ses. 1825.
Passed Feb.
16, 1826. |
WHEREAS, the cultivation of science and literature
is highly
conducive to the glory and prosperity of states: And whereas,
the establishment of learned societies has been found greatly to
promote this end, in other countries and in most of the states of
this confederation, by collecting, concentrating and preserving
the various productions and specimens of nature and of arts
And whereas, a society has been already organised for this purpose
within the city of Baltimore, which is desirous of obtaining
an act of incorporation; and as it is important to direct the
attention of observant and ingenuous men to the developement
of the natural resources of our state: Therefore, |
Preamble. |
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Robert Gilmor, Horace H. Hayden, Julius T. Ducatel, Joshua
I. Cohen, William Frick, P. Maccaulay, John Buckler, Philip
T. Tyson, John S. Skinner, James H. McCulloch, John Buckler,
George Frick, Elie Durand, George S. Townsend, A. I. Schwarze,
Tobias E. Watkins, Owen Reynolds, Howard Sims, David
Keener, William Howard, Israel D. Maulsby, Even T. Ellicott,
Evan Poultney, Benjamin I. Cohen, Edward Patterson,
William Fisher, David Hoffman, Oliver Sims, Edward Denison,
William Donaldson, Isaac Tyson, Josiah Pennington, Joseph
E. Muse, George S. Gibson, James I. Fisher and William
Wood, and their successors members of the said academy, be,
and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate,
with perpetual succession, under the style and title of the Maryland
academy of Science and Literature, with power to them
and their successors, to adopt a common seal, and the same to
alter and change, and by the name above written to sue and be
sued, to plead and be impleaded, and to take and hold property,
real, personal and mixed, and the same to sell, exchange or
otherwise dispose of, and in general to do, perform and suffer
all acts and things which may lawfully be done, performed and
suffered by a natural person: Provided, The annual income
of
said society, shall not exceed ten thousand dollars. |
Incorporated.
Proviso. |
2. And be it enacted, That this incorporation
or a majority of
the members of the same, shall have full power to make a system
of rules and regulations under the denomination of bye-laws
or otherwise, for the management of their affairs and the
government of the said company, and the same to alter and
amend, abrogate and annul whenever they may think proper:
Provided, The said regulations or by-laws be not repugnant to
law. |
Powers granted. |
3. And be it enacted, That the property
of the said company
shall not be transferred, bargained and sold, mortgaged, pledged,
alienated or otherwise disposed of without the consent previously |
Property not
to be discharged
of. |
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