1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 19.

phan children, and did thereby designate certain
persons to establish the same, with power to fill
vacancies in their number, and did authorise
them to apply to the General Assembly for an
act of incorporation for said institution, provid-
ing that the managers and officers of $aid cor-
poration should be annually chosen by and from
among the adult male members of the First
Presbyterian Church in the city of Baltimore, in
full communion with the said church, and where-
as, the persons so designated, and the persons
appointed to fill the vacancies as aforesaid in the
number of those designated; Namely, John 0.
Backus, D. D. David, S. Courtney, William L.
Gill, John N. Brown, Dr. George S. Gibson,
Archibald Stirling, William F. Murdock, Wm.
B. Canfield, William W. Spence, Alexander F.
Riack, Hamilton Easter, David Warfield, Jr.,
and Archibald Stirling, Jr., have applied to the
General Assembly for an act of incorporation
accordingly, and it seems fit to the General As-
sembly to aid the benevolent object of said testa-
tor, and the object of said incorporation cannot
be attained by general laws; Therefore,

Incorporated,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the adult male members of the
First Presbyterian Church in the city of Baltimore,
in full communion with said church, and those who
from time to time shall be such members, be, and
they are hereby, incorporated and made a body
politic, by the name of "The Egenton Orphan
Asylum of the city of Baltimore. "

Powers in
vested.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said corporation
shall have all powers necessary to carry out the ob-
jects of this charter, and the intention of said testa-
tor, as expressed in said will, in regard to the In-
stitution therein provided for, not contrary to law,
and for that purpose may receive from the executors
of said Egenton, and hold as its corporate property,
the estate and property, devised and bequeathed in
trust in said will, and may also hold any property,
real, personal or mixed, that may be devised or be-
queathed to, or acquired by, said corporation, and
the same dispose of at pleasure, provided the pro-
perty of the corporation shall not exceed in value
two hundred thousand dollars.

Officers.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the officers of said