1841.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 149.

CHAPTER 149.

Passed Feb
28, 1842.

An act for the incorporation of Mount Pisgah Lodge, num-
ber twenty-four, of the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, in Cecil County, and State of Maryland.

Incorporated.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Samuel A. West, J. W. Keene, Andrew
Orr, J. McVey, J. Conekin, J. Vanort, J. Smith, J. E. Coop-
er, Evan Morgan, J. Tignor, J. Tome, A. M. Strout, J. E.
Blackiston, James Orr, Geo. Stephenson, J. App, C. G.
McFadden, J. Stephenson, A. Forsyth, John Lumsden,
William Phillips, T. H. Osborn, H. Smithson, W. C. Black-
iston, A. Spencer, J. Archibald, J. W. Barry, J. H. Tunis,
J. W. McCullough, J. Toulson, E. T. Tomlinson, James
Barnes, J. Baldwin, Richard Lee, George McCreery, S.
Scarboro, P. Hopkins, J. Wiles, J. Ewing, George Keat-
inge, B. T. Alexander, A. W. Bann, W. Abrahams, E. G.
Hughs, J. Moore, A. Snow, J. Riley, Joseph Roman, Pa-
trick Early, J. Cashin, S. Gillespie, J. Adams, J. Reynolds,
J. S. Dallam, L. Hood, George Huff, Isaac Albertson, W.
Neilson, J. Christy, J. Gallison, James Wilson, J. Lumber-
son, J. Preston, A. Gallison, W. Andrew, J. P. Gallison,
the officers and members of Mount Pisgah Lodge, number
twenty-four, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in
Cecil county, and their successors, be and they are hereby

Name and
style.

declared to be a community, corporation and body politic,
by the name, style and title of Mount Pisgah Lodge of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and by that name, style
and title they and their successors, shall and may at all times
hereafter be capable in law to have, receive and retain to
them and their successors, property, real and personal, also
devises and bequests of any person or persons, bodies cor-
porate and politic, capable of making the same, and the
same at their pleasure to transfer and dispose of, in such

Proviso.

manner as they may think proper, provided always, that the
said corporation or body politic shall not at any time hold
or possess property, real and personal or mixed, exceeding
in total value the sum of three thousand dollars.

Legal capa-
-ity.

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 impleaded,
answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended in all
or any courts of justice, and before all and any judges, offi-
cer or persons whatsoever, in all and singular actions, mat-
ters or demands whatsoever.

Corporate
powers.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be law-
ful for the corporation to have a common seal for their use,