EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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seal, with such device and inscription as the said corpora-
tion shall adopt, and the same to break, alter and renew at
pleasure.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation, by

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May use a com-
mon seal.

the name, style and title aforesaid, shall be able and capable
in law to sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with,
plead and be impleaded in any Court or before any judge or
justice, in any and all manner of suits, complaints, pleas,
matters and demands of whatever nature and 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
and body corporate within the State of Maryland can or may.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall

May sue and
be sued, etc.

have the power to make, ordain and establish such by-laws
for the management of its property and the regulation of its
affairs as it may think proper and advisable, and from time
to time repeal, amend or re-enact the same, provided that
the same shall not be inconsistent with the law of the con-
stitution and discipline, rules and regulation of the German
Baptist Brethren of the Eastern Maryland District Meeting;
and provided further, that when such by-laws shall be
adopted and made by said body corporate they shall not be
repealed, amended or re-enacted except by the concurrence
of two-thirds of the qualified voters present at the district
meeting of Eastern Maryland of the German Baptist Brethren
assembled in annual council.
SEC. 6. And be ii enacted, That the said corporation, under

May make,
ordain and
establish by-
laws, etc.

its said corporate name, shall have power to take and hold,
by donation, gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, any
property, real, personal or mixed, in the State of Maryland,
or in any other State of the United States, in behalf of and
for the benefit of the German Baptist Brethren of the
Eastern Maryland District Meeting, and they to manage,
grant, convey, lease or otherwise to dispose of, and to execute
such trust as may be confided to said corporation, the whole
to be under the supervision of and amenable to the said
district meeting of the German Baptist Brethren of Eastern
Maryland.
SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall

Power given to
take and
hold prop-
erty, etc.

be qualified and have the requisite power to receive and
administer any special benevolent or charitable trust on
behalf of the German Baptist Brethren Church, or of any

Power given to
receive and
administer
trusts.