1840.

LAWS OP MARYLAND.

CHAP. 140.

Name and style.

Legal capacity.

By-laws.

mon Kothen, Tobias Hert, Simon Rosenfeld, Marcus S.
Poluck, A. Eengelhard, Simon Rekerdoxsen, Aaron Rec-
tors, and all others who may become members of said as-
sociation, and their successors, be and they are hereby crea-
ted a corporation and body politic, by the name and style
and title of the Baltimore Hebrew and English Benevolent
Academical Association, and by that name shall be able and
capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
defend and be defended, answer and be answered, in any
court of law or equity; and to make and use a common seal,
and the same to alter and change at pleasure, and to ordain
and establish such by-laws and regulations as may be ne-
cessary or convenient for conducting the affairs of the cor-
poration; provided, the same be not contrary to the laws of
this State or of the United States.

Corporate pow-
ers, &c.

Limit of pro-

perty.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall
be capable in law to have, receive and retain property, real
and personal; also devises and bequests of any person or
persons, bodies corporate or politic capable of making the
same, and the same to dispose at pleasure; provided always,
that the said corporation shall not at any time hold or pos-
sess property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding in value
the sum of ten thousand dollars.

Banking forbid.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act shall
be so construed as to authorise the said corporation to issue
any note, token, device or other evidence of debt to be used
as a currency.

In force.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act of incorporation
shall enure for thirty years from its passage; and that the
right is hereby reserved to the Legislature to alter or an-
nul this act at pleasure.

CHAPTER 140.

Passed Feb. 26,
1841.

An act, entitled a supplement to an act to incorporate a
Company to make a Turnpike Road from the District
of Columbia to the City of Baltimore, passed December
seventh, eighteen hundred and twelve.

May alter route.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Caroline M. Morris, proprietor of a certain tract of
and lying on both sides of the Washington and Baltimore
Turnpike Road, now known as Waterloo farm, (but men-
tioned in the act to which this is a supplement, as McCoy's