LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 341

may be members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, or lineal
descendants of said David and Elizabeth Cassell, as may need
the comforts of said Home, and when such body corporate
shall be duly formed the said Trustees, and their successors,
if any, were directed by said deed to convey said property to
such body corporate, all of which will more fully appear by
reference to said deed recorded among the Land Records of
Carroll County as aforesaid. Now, therefore, in order to en-
able said Trustees to carry out the benevolent purpose of the
grantors in said deed of trust,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That John D. Nicodemus, Amelia C. Aldridge,
Charles C. Gorsuch, William H. Geiman and George P. B.
Englar and H. H. Harman, Trustees, and their successors in
office, elected in the manner hereinafter provided, shall be and
they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic and
corporate by the name of "The Cassell Home for the Aged, " at
Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, and by that name
shall have perpetual succession and be capable in law of re-
ceiving and holding in trust, and of using and disposing of all
kinds of gifts, grants, conveyances, donations, devises and be-
quests of estate, real, personal and mixed, property and effects,
not exceeding in amount and value two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, and by said name may sue and be sued, plead
and be pleaded, answer and defend, may have and use a com-
mon seal and the same may alter at pleasure, and may exercise
all the other powers, incident to corporations aggregate, and all
powers, rights and privileges granted to benevolent and charit-
able corporations by the General Laws of the State of Mary-
land, in such manner as the said Trustees or a majority of
them may think proper, subject, nevertheless, to the control
and direction of the Board of Managers hereinafter provided
for, as to the use and application of the estate, property, effects
and funds which the said Trustees and their successors shall
hold or have in trust in virtue of this Act, and the deed re-
ferred to in the preamble of this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the object and purpose
of this Corporation is to enable said Trustees and their suc-
cessors to provide the ways and means to carry out the benevo-
lent and charitable intentions of said Elizabeth Cassell and
Lydia Cassell and the other grantors in the deed mentioned
in the preamble to this Act, and to that end there shall always
be a Board of seven Trustees to hold the legal title to the prop-