PRIVATE ACTS. 1265

CHAPTER 350.

AN ACT to incorporate the Jackson Grove Assembly of the
State of Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Whereas certain ministers and laymen in the State of Mary-
land and the District of Columbia have associated themselves
together for the purpose of organizing, - conducting and main-
taining an Interstate Bible School, Religious Assembly and

other lines of spiritual, moral and educational development, and
have applied to the Legislature of Maryland for an Act of
incorporation, the better to enable them to accomplish their
purpose; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Jacob L. Dicus, John M. Lowman, Carlos Murray,
Thomas S. Barrow, Wm. Beasley, Edwin D. Bailey, Thomas T.
Tagg, J. McLain Brown, Geo. W. Wheeler, Henry D. Gordon,
Joshua S. Meushaw, Chas. W. Simpson, Robert J. Bateman,
Thos. H. Gibson, J. Elmer Lacey, James W. Frizzell, Arthur
Kelson, Sigel Brown, Geo. W. Havell and James B. Clayton,
together with the subscribers to the stock, and their successors,
shall be and they are hereby declared to be a body politic
and corporate by the name and style of the Jackson Grove
Assembly of the State of Maryland and the District of Colum-
bia, and by that name shall have succession and be capable in
hiw to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be
answered, defend and be defended in all courts of law and
equity, or elsewhere, to make and use a common seal, and the
same to alter or renew at their pleasure, and generally to do
and perform all things relative to the objects of this organi-
zation, which now is or shall be lawful for any individual or
body politic or corporate to do, and shall have power to make
and enforce rules, by-laws and ordinances, and to do and
transact all and every such matters and things as are necessary
.and proper for their good government, support and further-
ance of the said organization.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said organization shall be
able and capable in law to purchase, take, receive, hold and
enjoy to them and their successors, all manner of lands, tene-
ments, rents, annuities, franchises and any sum or sums of
money and all manner of goods and chattels, and any kind of
property whatsoever by purchase, gift, grant, devise, bequest
or in any manner whatsoever not prohibited by the laws of the
State of Maryland, and the same to grant, bargain and sell,

lease, release, confirm, convey, dispose of and encumber by
judgments, mortgages or otherwise, and shall have power to

contract with any person or body corporate, in reference to the