1841.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. IB.

penses incurred by him in the care, education and main-
tainance of two destitute orphan children, left under his

charge; and that said levy court be fully empowered and
authorized to make said allowance from the time said chil-

Proviso.

dren were left with said David Trundle; provided the sum
allowed and assessed by the levy court, shall not exceed
the sum of three hundred dollars.

CHAPTER 15.

Passed Jan. 17,
1842.

An act to incorporate the Mercantile Library Association,
of the City of Baltimore.

Preamble.

Whereas, it is represented to this General Assembly,
That a number of young men of the city of Baltimore,
have associated themselves for the promotion of literature
and science, by the establishment of a literary and reading
room, lectures, and by such other methods as shall be
deemed expedient or necessary to the furtherance of this
design—Therefore,

Incorporated.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That J. Morrison Harris, George L. Wight,
George R. W. Allnutt, T. Dunnington, William W. Latimer,
John Steel Sumner, Josiah N. Jones, Henry I. Rodgers,
Laurence Thomsen, William A. Dunnington, George Cliffe,
Oliver B. Wight, and their associates, successors and as-
signs, be, and they are hereby created a corporation and

Name and style.

body politic, by the name and style of the Mercantile Li-
brary Association, of Baltimore, and by that name shall

Legal capacity.

have succession, be able and capable in law, to sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered in
any court of law or equity, to make and use a common seal,
and the same to change, alter, or renew at pleasure, and to

To make by-
laws.

ordain and establish such constitution, by-laws and regula-
tions, as may be necessary or convenient for conducting the
affairs of the said corporation.

Corporate pow-
ers.

Sec. 2. And he it enacted, That the said corporation
shall be, and is hereby made able and capable in law, to
have, purchase, receive, and possess, in fee simple or less
estate, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and personal pro-
perty, and the same to grant, demise, alien, or dispose of;

Proviso.

provided, that the clear annual income of such estate and
property, shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars.

Banking forbid

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