WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 76.

AN ACT to incorporate the Merchants' and Manu-

facturers' Association of Baltimore.

WHEREAS an association of citizens exists in the

city of Baltimore under the title of The Merchants'

and Manufacturers' Association of Baltimore, hav-

ing for its object the promotion of the general

welfare of the merchants and manufacturers in said

Preamble.

city; and whereas said association has applied for

an act of 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 and laudable objects for which it was

formed, therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the president of said asso-

ciation, Henry C. Smith; the vice-presidents, John

E. Hurst, Daniel J. Foley, Philip T. George and

Germon H. Hunt; the treasurer, William T.

Dixon; and the directors, Robinson W. Cator,

David L. Bartlett, George W. Gail, Thomas W.

Johnson, Philip Darby, Thomas Deford, Thomas J.

Magruder, Eugene Levering, Christian Devries,

Rodney B. Smith, William H. Baldwin, Jr., Solo-

mon Frank, James A. Gary, Henry Sonneborn,

John L, Sickel, J. Frank Supplee, James S. Wood-

side, Nicholas G. Penniman, Patrick H. Magill,

Charles Goldsborough, Wesley A. Tucker, John Q.

Adams, David Arnbach, John P. Manley and

Dwight D. Mallory, and such other persons as are

now members of said association, and their suc-

cessors, be and are hereby created a corporation

Created a Cor-

by the name of The Merchants' and Manufactu-

poration.

rers' Association of Baltimore, 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 ordain and establish such by-laws,

By-laws.

rules and regulations as may appear necessary and

proper for conducting the concerns of said corpora-

tion, and shall not be contrary to law; and the same

may change, alter or amend as shall appear proper ;

and may have, use, and at pleasure change a com-

mon seal; and generally may do any act or thing