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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 114.

AN ACT to incorporate the Board of Foreign Mis-

sions of the General Synod of the Evangelical

Lutheran Church in the United States of America.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That Charles A. Stork, John G.

Butler, George Scholl, Jacob A. Clutz, Frederick P.

Henninghausen, William M. Kemp, Oliver A. Lantz

and Samuel D. Schmucker, and their successors as

they shall from time to time be chosen and ap-

pointed in the manner hereinafter set forth, be and

Constituted a

they hereby are made, declared and constituted a

body corpo-
rate.

body corporate and politic, by the name of the

Board of Foreign Missions of the General Synod of

the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United

States of America, and by that name shall have

perpetual succession, and shall be capable in law to

Receive and

take, receive and hold such property, real, personal

held property.

or mixed, as may be acquired by them by gift, devise,

bequest or purchase, and the same to manage, dis-

pose of, alien and convey at pleasure, provided the

clear yearly income of such property shall not ex-

ceed fifty thousand dollars, and that the same shall

be appropriated to the purposes of the Foreign Mis-

sions of the General Synod of the Evangelical

Lutheran Church in the United States of America.

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

the said corporation shall defeat or annul any gift,

grant, devise or bequest to it or for its benefit in any

Misnomer not
to annul.

case in which it shall appear that said corporation

was in fact intended to be made the recipient or

beneficiary of such gift, grant, devise or bequest by

the person or persons making the same.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the corporation

Number con-

hereby created shall consist of not less than five or

stituting a cor-

more than nine persons, who shall from time to time

poration.

be chosen and appointed by the General Synod of

the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United

States of America, in such manner as it may

deem best, which persons, when so chosen and ap-

Tenure of
office

pointed, shall hold office as members of the corpora-

tion hereby created until the appointments of their

successors, and the persons named in the first section