1254 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Maryland for benevolent and charitable purposes, its certifi-
cate of incorporation being recorded among the Charter Rec-
ords of Baltimore city in Charter Record G. R. No. 17, March
H, 1873, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as
follows:

Article 1. The name of the Maryland Prisoners Aid Asso-
ciation of the City of Baltimore is hereby changed to the
Prisoners Aid Association of Maryland, and the said body
corporate by that name, style and title, is hereby made and
declared able and capable to take, receive, hold, possess and
acquire by gift, devise, bequest, grant or otherwise, lands, tene-
ments, goods, chattels, estates and property of any kind what-
soever, and tlie same again to grant, devise, alien or dispose of.

Article 2. The object of this association shall be to promote
the temporal and moral welfare of those who are in prisons or
other places of confinement or lately discharged therefrom;
the improvement of the condition of prisoners, whether de-
tained for trial or finally convicted, or as witnesses; studying
the causes and prevention of crime; the support and encour-
agement of reformed convicts after their discharge by afford-
ing them an opportunity of obtaining an honest livelihood and
sustaining them in their efforts to reform; to visit the inmates
of the asylums, the almshouses, jails, penal, correctional and
reformatory institutions of the city of Baltimore and State of
Maryland.

Article 3. Its operations shall be carried on throughout the
State of Maryland and the city of Baltimore, and its prin-
cipal offices shall be located in the city of Baltimore.

Article 4. Anyone conforming to its constitution and by-laws
may become a member of said association.

Article 5. That said corporation shall have full power and
authority to make, give and use a common seal with such
device and inscription as said corporation shall adopt, and the
same to break, alter and renew at pleasure.

Article (5. That said corporation, by the name, style and title
aforesaid shall be able and capable at law or in equity 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 de-
mands of whatever nature and kind or form there 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.

Article 7. That said corporation shall have power to make,
retain and establish a constitution and by-laws for the manage-