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CHAP. 151.
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S., No. forty-four, folio thirty-seven, and so
forth, will appear; And whereas, the said cor-
poration and its present managers, have by petition
to this General Assembly, set forth that the ground
and buildings occupied by the orphans and other
property purchased by the said corporation, when
the same shall be completed and fully paid for, will
exceed in value the sum allowed to be held under
the said act of Assembly; and they have asked for
a special act of incorporation and for a grant of the
powers and authority usually conferred on the
managers of orphan asylums; Wherefore,
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Incorporated
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Reverend George Ruland,
Peter Volz, Michael Willinger, Franz S. Kuper,
Anton Dausch, John W. Kalvelage, Lorenz Bopp,
Martin Friedewich and John Guckert of Baltimore
city, be and they are hereby created and made a
body corporate, by the name of Saint Anthony's
Orphan Asylum in Baltimore city, and by that
name shall have perpetual succession, and have
and use a common seal, which they may alter at
any time, and may make by-laws to provide for the
succession of the managers, and may enlarge the
number of managers to twelve, and the Rector for
the time being, of Saint Alphonsus church in Bal-
timore city, shall be the president of the board, and
have a veto on all its acts, and the said corporation
may receive into its care and charge, orphan and
other destitute children for support and education;
and may bind out any child that may be placed
under its charge, when at a proper age to be bound
out, to serve until the age of eighteen years for
girls and twenty-one years for boys, and the said
corporation may purchase, take, receive and hold
any real and personal estate by deed, gift, devise
and bequest, for the use of the said corporation,
not however to exceed in annual value, exclusive of
the grounds and house occupied by the orphans,
the sum of ten thousand dollars.
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Corporate
powers.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if this act is
accepted by the said corporation of the tenth day of
April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, then and
immediately thereafter, the powers, authority,
rights and property of the said corporation, shall
pass to and be vested in the corporation hereby
created, subject however to all the debts and liabili-
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