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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

G. Dulany, Alexander Beckhofer, Robert Rennert, Levi Wein-
berger. William A. Marbury, William J. H. Walters, Levi
Witz, Charles E. Ford, Frank E. Furst, William W. Johnson,
William F. Beidler, Frederick P. Stieff, Daniel E. Couklin,
Albert B. Cunningham, Ferdinand C. Latrobe, Harry F. Tur-
ner, James Hodges, John K. Ober, Daniel R. Tregeller, Thomas
J. Hayward, Thornton Rollins, Edward Raine, George C.
Wedderman, Edwin Warfield, Clinton P. Paine, George K.
McGaw, E. Harvie Smith, Henry A. Parr, J. Hough Cottman,
Andrew D. Jones, John M. Dulany, Felix Agnus, Louis H.
Gutman, Franklin W. Levering and Douglas H. Gordon, all
residents of the city of Baltimore, and Charles H. Vanderford,

A body cor-
porate.

of Westminster, Maryland, and their associates, successors and
assigns, be and they are hereby created and made a body cor-
porate under and by the name and style of the "Baltimore
Centennial Association," and by that name shall have per-

Corporate
powers.

petual succession, and shall be capable to sue and be sued,
complain and defend, in any court of law or equity, to make and
use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure, to receive
and make deeds and contract to borrow money in such sums
and at such times and on such terms as it may deem necessary
for the proper transaction of the business hereby authorized ;
and to issue and dispose of its bonds or other evidences of
indebtedness for any amount or amounts so borrowed, not
exceeding its authorized capital stock; and to mortgage its
corporate property and franchises to secure the payment of
any indebtedness so contracted by it; it shall have power to
receive for payment for any subscription to its capital stock,
any property necessary or convenient for its purposes, at such
price as may be agreed upon between the owner thereof and
the directors of this association; to acquire by purchase or any
manner, take, receive, hold, use, employ, manage, mortgage,
dispose of, in any manner not inconsistent with law; deal with
any property, real, personal or mixed, and situate in or out of
the State, which may be necessary or proper to enable said
corporation to carry on its operations or fulfill the purposes
named in this act; and generally to do every other thing or
act, not inconsistent with law, which may be necessary or
proper to promote the objects, designs and purposes for which

Object of
corporation.

this corporation is formed, which are hereby declared to be
for the purpose of celebrating the one hundredth anniversary
of the incorporation of Baltimore city, by holding an exhibi-
tion of arts, industries, manufactures and the product of the
soil, mine and sea, in the said city of Baltimore, in the State
of Maryland, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.