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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That Edmund R. Eschbach, Si-

mon S. Miller, Louis Markell, J. Taylor Motter and

Jacob H. Lichliter, and their successors, duly elected

and appointed in manner as is hereinafter directed,

be and they are hereby made, declared and con-

Constituted a

stituted a corporation and body politic and corpo-

corporation.

rate, to have continuance until otherwise ordered

by the General Assembly, by the name, style and

title of " The Trustees of the Maryland Classis of the

Reformed church in the United States;" and by the

name, style and title aforesaid, shall hereafter be

persons able and capable in law, as well to take, re-

ceive and hold such estate, property and effects as

Receive and

may be acquired by gift, purchase, devise, grant or

hold property

bequest by said ministers and elders of the Mary-

land Classis of the Reformed church in the United

States, or any other person or persons, to their use,

or in trust for them, according to the original use

and intent for which such gifts, purchases, devises,

grants or bequests shall be respectively made; sub-

ject, however, in the case of devises and bequests,

always to the sanction of the General Assembly of

Maryland, as provided in the declaration of rights.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That no misnomer of the

said corporation, and their successors, shall defeat

Misnomer not
to defeat.

or annul any purchase, gift, grant, devise or bequest

to or from the said corporation; provided the intent

of the party or parties shall sufficiently appear upon

the face of the gift, will, grant or other writing,

whereby any estate or interest was intended to pass

to or from the said corporation.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said corpo-

ration, and their successors, shall have full power

Use one com-

and authority to make, have and use one common

mon seal.

seal, with such device and inscription as they shall

see fit and proper, and the same to break, alter and

renew at their pleasure.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said corpo-

ration and their successors, by the name, style and

title aforesaid, shall be able and capable, in law, to

sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, in any

Sue and be

court, or before any judge or justice, in all manner

sued.

of suits, complaints, pleas, matters and demands, of

whatsoever nature, kind and form they may be, and

all and every matter and thing to do, in as full and