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A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 179
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CHAPTER 131.
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AN ACT to incorporate the Union Club Building
Association.
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Passed March
7, 1864.
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SECTION 1, B e it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John P. Kennedy, Jerome N.
Bonaparte, Haslett McKim, William J. Albert,
Joseph Cushing, Jr., Thomas Whitridge, Gerard
T. Hopkins, Thomas M. Smith and George Small,
and all other persons who may become members
of the corporation to be created by this act, and
their successors ,be and they are hereby incorpo-
rated by the name of "The Union Club Building
Association," by which name they may sue and
be sued, answer and defend in any Court of law
or equity, and may have and use a common seal,
and the same alter and renew at pleasure.
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Incorporated.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the purpose and
object of the said corporation being to purchase or
erect a building or buildings for the use and ac-
commodation of the Union Club of Baltimore, and
to procure the necessary furniture and outfit for
the same; the said corporation is hereby empow-
ered, in and by its corporate name, to purchase
and hold real and leasehold estate in the city of
Baltimore, improved or unimproved, and to erect
thereon, if deemed advisable, a building or build-
ings suitable for the use and accommodation of
the said Union Club of Baltimore, and also to pur-
chase and hold all such furniture and other per-
sonal property as may be deemed suitable for the
building or buildings so erected, or for any build-
ing or buildings which may have been already
erected on ground purchased as aforesaid, be-
fore the purchase of the said ground; and the
said corporation is further empowered to lease
any such building or buildings so erected or ac-
quired, and to receive the rents and profits thereof,
and divide the same among the stockholders; ami
also to sell and convey, and to mortgage, any part
of its said property, and to alter, repair or recon-
struct any building or buildings on any real or
leasehold estate, acquired or held as aforesaid.
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Objects and
purposes of the
corporation.
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the capital stock
of said corporation shall be thirty-five thousand
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Capital stock.
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