THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

authorised by the General Assembly, and that the
power is hereby reserved to the General Assembly
from and after the year eighteen hundred and sixty to
dissolve said corporation.

CHAP. 274.
Authority to re-

peal

CHAPTER 274.

An act to incorporate the American Colonization Society.

Passed Mar. 14,
1837

WHEREAS, by an act of the General Assembly of
Maryland, entitled, an act to incorporate the American
Colonization Society, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter one hundred
and eighty-nine, the said society was incorporated with
certain powers; and whereas, it is represented to this
General Assembly that the rights and interests of said
society have been materially injured, and are likely to
suffer farther injury by certain alleged omissions on
the part of said society to give efficiency to said act,
Therefore:

Preamble

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That John U. Herbert, Daniel Murray,
Joseph Kent, Ezekiel F. Chambers, Daniel Jenifer,
George C. Washington, Virgil Maxcy, Zaccheus
Collins Lee, Alexander Randall, Francis S. Key,
Walter Jones, Ralph R. Gurley and William W. Sea-
ton, of the society called the American Society for col-
onizing the free people of color of the United States,
and their successors, together with such others elected
and qualified as the present or future constitution, by-

Persons incor-
porated

laws, ordinances or regulations of said society do or
shall hereafter prescribe, shall be and they are hereby
created and declared to be a body politic and corporate
by the name, style and title of the American Coloniza-

Slyle

tion Society, and by that name shall have perpetual
succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, to
plead and be implcadcd in any court of law or equity
in this State, and may have and use a common seal,
and the same may destroy, alter or renew at pleasure,

Coporate pow-

ers granted

and shall have power to purchase, have and enjoy to
them and their successors, in fee or otherwise, any
land, tenements or hereditaments, by the gift, bar-

Estate