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Persons nco po a
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Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That James M Buchanan, George H Brice, George
M Rogers, George Gardner, Felix Connelly junior, James
M Anderson, William Chesnut, John D Danels, George
W Andrews, John Tensfield, bamuel Manning, Thomas
E Tilden, James O Law, W.J Leaman, B U Campbell
come members of said company, shall be, and they are
hereby declared to be, one community, corporation, and
body politic, forever hereafter, by the name and style of
the Baltimore Property Guard, and by that name they shall
be, and are hereby made able and capable in law, to have
purchase, receive, possess, enjoy, and retain, to them and
their successors, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, or other
hereditaments, and the same to grant, demise, alien, or dis
pose of, in such manner as they may judge most conducive
to the interest of the company, Provided, nevertheless, that
the said corporation shall not, at any time, hold or possess
property, real, personal, or mixed, exceeding in value the
sum of twenty thousand dollars
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Legal capacities
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Sec 2 And be it enacted, That the said corporation and
their successors, by the aforesaid name, shall forever here
after, be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defend
ed, in all or any courts of justice whatever, and also to have
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General powers
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make, and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter
and renew at pleasure, and also to assemble at such times
and places as they may agree upon, and to ordain, esta
blish, and put in execution, such by laws, ordinances and
regulations, as to them shall seem conducive to the interest
of said corporation, and necessary to the good government
and orderly management thereof, the same not being con
trary to the laws of this State or of the United States— and
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