ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Chapter 290.

AN ACT for the incorporation of the " Supreme
Lodge of the Shield of Honor of the United

States,"

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That William J. Cunningham,
John W. Meeks, Henry Duvall, Benjamin F.
Lusby, Joseph Gillespie, John Thomas Reed,
John T. Jones, William T. Henry, Henry S.

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Biggs, R. William Arnold, A. Trego Shertzer,
Joshua W. Busick, William E. Clemm, O. B.
Smith, John C. Fisher, Harry C. Smith, John L.
Sanders, Charles B. Jack, Richard H. Deale,
John F. Bain, William H. Hobbs, Louis Hoff-
man, Charles A. Rotan, of the State of Mary-
land ; Harry C. Stout, Robert J. Lumpkin, John
F. Spittall, Robert R. Hodge, Edwin Fudge, A.
P. Train, of the State of Pennsylvania ; Sydney
Maurice, George A. Bingham, Samuel M. Beck,
Philip P. Achenbach, of the State of New Jersey ;
Thomas M. Crossley, Isaac W. Weaver, C. T.
Martin, of the State of Delaware ; Joseph L.
Degant, Thomas G. Mayberry, J. W. Finney,
A. B. Hill, of the State of West Virginia ; Joseph
R. Hunting, Adolph Rosenthal, of the State of
New York, officers and members of the " Shield
of Honor," and their successors, be and they are
hereby declared to be and incorporated a com-
munity, corporation and body politic, by the
name and style and title of " The Supreme Lodge
of the Shield of Honor of the United States,"
and by that name they and their successors shall
and may, at all times hereafter, be capable in
law to have, receive and retain, to them and
their successors, property, real and personal,
also devises or bequests of any person or persons,
bodies corporate or politic, capable of making
the same, and the same at their pleasure to trans-
fer or dispose of in such manner as they may

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think proper ; provided always, that the said
corporation or body politic, shall not at any time
hold or possess property, real or personal or
mixed, the income whereof shall exceed the
annual sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

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