1840.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 145.

Francis W. Hawkins and Jane L. Hawkins, among their
heirs at law; and that the said county court shall therein, in
all respects proceed, as in other cases, until the same shall
be finally adjudged according to the course of the said act
to direct descents, and as therein provided.

CHAPTER 145.

Passed Feb. 26,
1841.

An act to incorporate the Blacksmiths, Engineers, Machi-
nists and Millwrights Society of Baltimore.

Individuals in-
corporated.

Name and style.

Corporate pow-
ers.

Proviso.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That John R. Rhodes, William T. Draper,
Thomas Denmeod, William Kirby, Henry Walker, John
B. Mears, George Waterson, Jacob Gruber, Leonard Fo-
rest, and others, who now are or may hereafter become
members of said society, and their successors, are hereby
declared to be one community and body corporate, by the
name, style and title of the Blacksmiths, Engineers, Ma-
chinists and Millwrights Society of Baltimore, and by that
name they shall be and are hereby made able and capable
in law to have, receive and retain to them and their suc-
cessors, property, real and personal, also devises and be-
quests of any person or persons, bodies corporate or politic,
capable of making the same; and the same to dispose of or
transfer, at their pleasure, in such manner as they may
think proper, provided always, that the said corporation
shall not at any time hold or possess property, real, person-
al or mixed, exceeding in value the sum of ten thousand
dollars.

Legal capacity.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
and their successors, by the name and title aforesaid, shall
be capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be implea-
ded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended,
in all or any courts of justice, and before all and any judges,
officers or persons whatsoever, in all and singular actions,
matters or demands whatsoever.

Stated meeting
by-laws, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
shall have power to hold stated meetings; to establish and
put into execution, alter or abolish such by-laws, rules and
regulations as to them shall seem most conducive to the in-
terest of the society; provided, the same shall not be con-
trary to the laws of this State, or of the United States.