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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 203.

AN ACT to incorporate the Clothiers' Board of Trade, of
Baltimore City.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

A body cor-
porate.

land, That Samuel Rosenthal, Lewis Hamburger, Samuel E.
Reinbard, Michael Schloss, Joseph Walter, Benjamin Fried-
man, Henry Burgunder, Max Grief, Joseph M. Polock and
their associates and successors be and they hereby are consti-
tuted and made a body corporate and politic, under the name
of and style of the "Clothiers' Board of Trade of Baltimore
City," and by that name shall have perpetual succession.

Object of
corporation.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the objects and purposes of
this corporation shall be to foster trade and commerce, to
reform abuses therein, to secure freedom from unjust and
unlawful exactions, to settle differences that may arise, and to
promote harmonious feelings of mutual interest between mer-
chants engaged in clothing industry, and to insure united
action wherever and whenever the interest of its members are
concerned.

May sue and
be sued, etc.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said corporation, under
the above name and style, shall be capable, in law, to sue and
be sued, to plead and be impleaded, and to answer and be
answered in any court of law or equity; to make and use a
common seal, and to alter and renew the same at pleasure; to
make and adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government
of said body corporate and its affairs; provided, the same shall
not be in conflict with Constitution and laws of this State, and
of the United States; to elect officers and directors, and gen-
erally to do every other act or thing to carry into effect the
provisions of this act, or to promote the objects and designs
of the corporation.

May hold real
estate, etc.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation is here-
by authorized and empowered to receive and hold real or
personal property, by purchase, lease, gift, devise or bequest, for
the purpose of said corporation, and to grant, dispose of, sell,
convey or lease the same or any part thereof, as fully as
any private individual or other corporate body could or might
do.

Directors.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the members of this cor-
poration shall annually, on the second Wednesday of April,
elect by ballot from among their members, nine directors, who
shall have the general management of the affairs of this cor-