THOMAS KING CARROLL,
ESQ. GOVERNOR.
1829.
empowered, to bind out any child or children, which
the said
Jane, may have had by her said husband, without the assent of
the said Peter Lapourille.
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CHAP. 94.
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CHAPTER 95.
An act to incorporate the TRustees of the Female Orphans' Society
of Annapolis.
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Passed Feb. 18, 1830.
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WHEREAS, Mrs. Elizabeth Maynadier, Mrs.
Rebecca
Nicholson, Mrs. Prudence G. Ridout, Mrs. Amelia Pinkney,
Mrs. Blanchard, Mrs. Elizabeth Bowie, Mrs. Ann Stockett,
Miss Elizabeth Mills, Miss Ann Franklin, Miss Mary Done,
Mrs. Mary Green, Mrs. S. A. Brewer, and other respectable
ladies in the city of Annapolis, have associated by the name of
the Female Orphan Society, for the benevolent purpose of rendering
charitable aid as far as may be in their power, to destitute
female orphans; the better to enable them to carry
into effect their benevolent purpose have prayed that Trustees
of the said Society may be incorporated with power to receive,
hold, and dispose of contributions, donations, gifts,
grants and devises of all kinds of property, estate, and effects,
to a limited amount, in trust for the purpose aforesaid; therefore,
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Preamble.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Samuel Ridout, Doctor John Ridgely, Col. Henry Maynadier,
Doctor John Ridout, and Thomas S. Alexander, and their successors
in office elected in the manner hereinafter provided,
shall be and they are hereby incorporated and made a body
politic, by the name of the Trustees of the Female Orphan Society
of the city of Annapolis; and by that name shall have
perpetual succession, and be capable in law of receiving and
holding in trust, and of using and disposing of, as is hereinafter
provided for, all kinds of gifts, grants, conveyances, donations
and devises of estate, real, personal and mixed, property and
effects, not exceeding in amount twenty thousand dollars, and
by the said name may sue and be sued, and plead, answer and
defend; may have and use a common seal, and the same may
alter and renew at pleasure, and may exercise all the other
powers incident to corporations aggregate, and all powers authorised
by this act, in such manner as they or a majority of
them may deem proper; subject nevertheless to the controul
and dispositions of the Directresses of the said Orphans Society,
or a majority of them, as to the disposition and application of
estate, property, effects and funds which the said Trustees
shall so hold or have in trust in virtue of this act.
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Corporate powers
granted.
Subject nevertheless.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted,
That the members of the Female
Orphans Society of Annapolis aforesaid, shall meet annually
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Elector of directresses.
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