HENRY LLOYD, ESQURE, GOVERNOR.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That Lyttleton F. Mor-
gan, Alexander E. Gibson, David H. Carroll,
Joseph J. G. Webster, Francis A. Crook, Henry
M. Wilson, J. Berry Turner, George W. Corner
and Philip Darby, and their successors, duly
elected and appointed in the manner herein-
after directed, be and they are hereby made,
declared and constituted a body politic and
corporate, to have perpetual succession, by the

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name, style and title of " The Trustees of the
Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church," and by that name, style
and title are hereby made able and capable in
law to take, receive, hold, possess and acquire,
by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise,
lands, tenements, goods, chattels, estate and
property of any kind whatsoever, and the
same again to grant, devise, alien or dispose
of; provided, that the clear yearly value of
real and personal estate of said corporation
shall not exceed the sum of fifty thousand
dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said cor-

Body politic.

poration, and their successors, shall have full
power and authority to make, have and use a
common seal, with such device and inscrip-
tion as they shall see fit and proper, and the
same to break, alter and renew at pleasure.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said cor-
poration, and their successors, by the name,
style and title aforesaid, shall be able and
capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded in any Court, or before any Judge

Seal.

or Justice, in any and all manner of suits, com-
plaints, pleas, matters and demands of what-
ever nature, kind or form they may be, and
all and every matter and thing to do in as full
and effectual a manner as any other person or
persons, bodies politic and corporate within
this State, can or may.
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Sue and be

sued.