1834

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP 100

CHAPTER 100.

Passed Feb. 27 1834

An act to Incorporate the Mechanic Institute and Frederick
Lyceum

Preamble

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly
that a number of the inhabitants of Frederick city have
formed themselves into a society, whose object is the pro-
motion of literature, and the encouragement of the arts and
sciences, by providing a Library, Reading rooms, and Lee
ture rooms, and all necessary apparatus for the use of the
same — Therefore,

Corporation credi-

ted

Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland That David F Schaeffer, Robert E Dorsey, David
B Devitt, Charles A Gambrill, James M Shellman, Fred-
erick A. Schley Samuel Carmack Jacob Fauble, Patrick
Tormey, Richard Potts, John Henshew, C B Artz, George
F Stone, George I Fischer, George Schley, James M
Coale, Benjamin Price, and all others who are, or may be
hereafter admitted into the association, agreeably to such
rules and regulations as now are, or may from time to time
be established for the government and management of the
same, and their successors and assigns, be and they are
hereby created a corporation and body politic, by the name

Title-seal &c

and style of the Mechanic Institute and Frederick Lyceum,
and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall
be able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, implead and
be impleaded, answer and be answered, in any court of law
or equity, and to make and use a common seal, and the
same to change and alter at pleasure, and to ordain and es-
tablish such by laws and regulations, not contrary to law, as
shall be necessary or convenient for conducting the affairs
of this corporation

Legal capacity-

property

Sec 2. And be it enacted, That the corporation and their
successors, by the aforesaid name, shall be and are hereby
made able and capable in law, to have, purchase, receive
and possess, enjoy and retain, to them and their successors,
lands, tenements, rents, annuities, pension and other here
ditaments, in fee simple, or for a term of years, life or lives,
or otherwise, and also goods, chattels, and effects of what
nature, kind, or quality soever, and the same to grant, demise,
alien or dispose of, and by the name aforesaid, to do and
execute all other things, touching the same, Provided, that
the total value of the property of said corporation, real,