452 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

		Chapter 336.
		AN ACT to incorporate the Benedictine Society of
		Baltimore city.
		WHEREAS the Rev. Meinrad Jeggle, O. S. B.; Rev.
		Benne Hegele, O. S. B.; Rev. Carbinian Gastbriehl,
		O. S. B.; Rev. Otto Kopf, O. S. B.; Rev. Willibald
		Baumgaertner, O. S. B., duly naturalized citizens of
		the United States, have formed themselves into a
		society by the name of the Benedictine Society of
		Baltimore city, for religious, charitable and educational
		purposes, and have contracted for the purchase of a
	Preamble.	church and other buildings for the residence of them-
		selves and their assistants, and for a school, and pro-
		pose when their means will permit to extend the
		operations of their society by the purchase or erection
		of similar improvements in the said city and the State
		of Maryland, and to apply their means to gratuitous,
		religious as well as general education; and whereas
		for the better attainment of said purposes, they have
		prayed an act of incorporation, therefore —
		SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
		of Maryland, That the said Meinrad Jeggle, Cardi-
		nian Gastbriehl, Otto Kopf and Willibald Baumgaert-
		ner and Benne Heigle, and their successors, be and
	Created a body	they are hereby created and made a body politic and
	politic.	corporate by the name of " The Benedictine Society
		of Baltimore city," and by that name shall have suc-
		cession, with full power and authority to provide for
		the admission and rejection of members, and to make
	Make ueceeeary	all by-laws necessary for the government of said
	laws.	society, and to have and use a common seal, and the
		same to make, break and alter at pleasure; and shall
		be capable in law and have full authority and power
		to take, receive and hold by purchase, sale, gift, lease,
		devise, bequest or legacy any real or personal property,
		and the same to alien, sell and transfer absolutely or
		conditionally at pleasure; and to sue and be sued,
		implead and be impleaded.
		SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corpora-
	Limit to estate	tion shall not be authorized to hold any estate or
	held.	property, the net annual income of which shall
		exceed at any time the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ;