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charge of four cents per mile, for the conveyance
of
such persons.
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SEC. 15. And be it enacted,
That nothing herein
contained shall be taken or construed to authorise the
said company, either directly or indirectly, to exercise
or use banking privileges.
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Banking forbid.
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SEC. 16. And be it enacted,
That all the powers
and privileges granted by this act shall extend to all
branches, or lateral roads, which the aforesaid company
is authorised by this act of incorporation to construct.
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Powers extended.
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SEC. 17. And be it enacted,
That the Legislature
reserves the right to alter, amend or repeal this act at
pleasure.
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Reservation.
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CHAPTER 274.
AN ACT to incorporate the Trustees of the Sheppard
Asylum.
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Passed May
24, 1853.
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SECTION 1. Be
it enacted by the General Assembly of
of Maryland, That Moses Sheppard, David M. Perine,
Doctor William Riley, Archibald Sterling, Charles Howard,
William M. Medcalf and Richard H. Townsend,
and their successors, be and they are hereby incorporated
and made and constituted, a body politic and corporate,
by the name and style of the Trustees of the Sheppard
Asylum, and by that name, style and title, shall have
continued succession, and shall be able and capable in
law to acquire property, real, personal and mixed, by
gift, devise or purchase, and to hold, sell, dispose of and
convey the same, and to sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended
in any court of law or equity, or other place
whatsoever, and to have and use a common seal, and
the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure, and to
receive and to make all deeds, transfers, contracts, covenants,
conveyances and grants whatsoever, and generally
to do every other act and thing necessary to carry into
effect the provisions of this act, and to promote the object
and design of said corporation.
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Incorporated.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That the object and
design of the said corporation, is hereby declared to be
the founding and maintaining an asylum for the insane,
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Object of corporation.
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