EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 423
CHAPTER 216.

AN ACT to amend the Act entitled "An Act to Incorporate the
Preachers Aid Society of Baltimore, " passed January 27th,
1827; being Chapter 40 of the Laws of Maryland of 1826,
and the re-affirmation of said Act passed at the January
Session of the Legislature of 1858, being Chapter 11 of the
Laws of 1858.

WHEREAS, Samuel Harden, William, Wilkins, Thomas E.
Bond, Philip Littig, Andrew Adgate, Thomas Armstrong,
Fielder Israel, Christian Keener, James Brundige, Alexander
Russell, William M'Konkey, Jr., Thomas Kelso, Robert Arm-
strong, Jacob Rogers, George Ernest and John Berry, mem-
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the City of Balti-
more, and others, have formed themselves into a Society for
the laudable purpose of affording relief to the itinerant min-
isters of the said Church, their wives, widows and children,
and for the education of the latter, and have prayed for an act
of incorporation, that they may be the better enabled to carry
such their purposes into effect; and the General Assembly of
Maryland being desirous of promoting such institution; there-
fore,

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Samuel Harden, William Wilkins, Thomas E. Bond,
Philip Littig, Andrew Adgate, Thomas Armstrong, Fielder
Israel, Christian Keener, James Brundige, Alexander Russell,
William McKonkey, Jr., Thomas Kelso, Robert Armstrong,
Jacob Rogers, George Ernest and John Berry, and others that
now are, or hereafter may become members of the corporation
herein created, or may be admitted into said corporation agree-
ably to the constitution, rules and by-laws of the same, and
their successors, are hereby declared to be one community, cor-
poration and body politic, by the name, style and title of the
Methodist Preachers' Aid Society of Baltimore, and by that
name they are hereby made able and capable in law to have,
hold, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain to them and
their successors, lands, tenements, hereditaments, rents, annui-
ties or pensions, in fee-simple or for a term of years, life, lives
or otherwise, and also goods, chattels and effects, of what
nature or description whatsoever, and the same again to, grant,
divide, alien or dispose of; Provided that the clear yearly
income of the real and personal estate of said corporation
exceed not the sum of twenty thousand dollars.