T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

priated for the payment of this State's proportion
of such expenses as may be required to complete
the survey and record of said lines, and that the
compensation of the commissioners on the part of
this State, and that of the officer of United States
engineer employed under him, for services already
rendered and to be rendered, shall be such reasona-
ble compensation, as the Governor may in his dis-

CHAP. 386.

cretion allow; Provided, the same does not ex-
ceed a yearly salary of two thousand dollars to
the former and of one thousand dollars to the lat-
ter, and the Comptroller is hereby directed to issue
his warrant or warrants upon the Treasurer in
pursuance of the Governor's order therefor, for the
payment of such sums of money as may be hereby
required.

Proviso.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 386.
AN ACT to incorporate the Maryland Inebriate

In force.

Asylum, and to provide for taking care of the per-
sons and estates of habitual drunkards.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

Passed March
5, 1860

of Maryland, That the Maryland Inebriate Asylum
is hereby, by said name incorporated and constitu-
ted a body politic and corporate.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That for said purpose,

Incorporated;

the said Institution shall have power in its corpo-
rate name, to take, purchase and hold, real estate
in the State of Maryland, and erect thereon a build-
ing or buildings suitable for the purposes of said
Asylum, and to take, purchase, hold and convey,
such real and personal property, as may be neces-
sary or proper to carry out the objects of said Asy-
lum, said corporation shall have power to sue and
be sued, to make and use a common seal, and to
alter the same at pleasure and to take and hold any
grant or devise of land or any donation or be-
quest of money or other personal property; to be
applied to the founding and maintenance of said
Asylum.

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