HEXRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 327.

AN ACT to incorporate the Baltimore Yearly
Meeting of Friends (Orthodox.)

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That Francis T. King,
James Carey, James Carey Thomas, Joseph P.
Elliott, Francis White, Jesse Tyson, Charles

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W. Davis, Simon J. Martenet, James Carey, Jr.,
Joseph Edge, George L. Scott, John B. Cren-
shaw, John Pretlow, Thomas McCoy and
Zachariah McNaul, and all those persons now
constituting the religious society known as
the "Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends for
the Western Shore of Maryland, Virginia and
the adjacent parts of Pennsylvania, in unity
with the Ancient Year Meeting of Friends,"
who now hold their Yearly Meeting on Eutaw
street, in the city of Baltimore, and all those
persons who may hereafter become members
thereof, agreeably to the rules and discipline
of said society, or to such rules and discipline
as may hereafter be adopted thereby, be and
they are hereby created a body politic and cor-
porate by the name of the Baltimore Yearly
Meeting of Friends (Orthodox), and by that
name shall have perpetual succession, and be
able and capable to sue and be sued; at law and
in equity, to have a common seal, and the same
to change, alter and renew at pleasure, and to
do all acts necessary and lawful for carrying
into effect the objects and purposes of the

Corporation.

aforesaid society, and they are hereby au-
thorized and empowered to receive and hold
by gift, grant, devise, purchase or otherwise,
real and personal estate and other effects and
property, and the same to grant, mortgage,
demise or otherwise dispose of the whole or
any part or parts thereof; provided, the clear
yearly income from the property of said cor-
poration shall not exceed the sum of twenty-
five thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the objects of
the corporation hereby created, are for the

Have seal, &c.