WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

and his successors in office; and upon which mortgage, any
holder or holders of such notes, may sue in behalf of them-
selves and all other holders of notes, which shall not be
absorbed or funded as aforesaid; and provided further, that
nothing in this act shall impair the validity and effect of the
mortgage heretofore executed to this State by the said com-
pany, in virtue of the act passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, chapter four hundred
and sixteen; and provided also, that the mortgage directed
by this act to be executed, shall be expressed to be made
subject to the prior lien of the said mortgage, so executed
to this State.

CHAPTER 48.

CHAP. 49.

Proviso.

An act to divorce Ruth Smith, from her husband Samuel
R. Smith.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Ruth Smith, of Frederick county, be and she is here-
by divorced from her husband Samuel R. Smith, a mensa
et thoro.

CHAPTER 49.

Passed Mar. 31,
1841.

Divorced

An act to incorporate the Trustees of the Franklin School
House, in Cecil County.

WHEREAS, a number of the citizens of Cecil county
have built a school house, and organized a public school,
and elected the following persons as trustees thereof, viz:
William M. McCullough, Jesse Boyle and John Egan, and
have prayed an act of incorporation — therefore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the said trustees above named, and their
successors, shall be a body corporate, and shall have per-
petual succession, by the name and style of the Trustees
of the Franklin School House; and by that name may sue
and be sued, and have a corporate seal, which they may
break, alter and change at pleasure; may hold property to
an amount not exceeding two thousand dollars, and dispose

Passed April 6,
1841.

Preamble

Incorporated.

Name and style.

Corporate pow-
ers.