1841.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 157.

Roe of Queen Anne's county, may and they are hereby au-
thorized to straighten that part of the public road leading
from Bullock town to Keene's coop roads, which passed
between and divided their farms, and the said William R.
Keene and Thomas Roe shall make the new part of the road
the same width as the old road, and shall put the same in
good order and condition, and when the said road shall be
straightened and put in good order and condition, they shall
signify the fact to the levy court of Queen Anne's county
and Caroline county respectively, and the said courts shall

Viewers to be
appointed

each appoint one person to view and inspect the said road,
and report the condition thereof, and if the said road shall
be approved and received by the said courts, it shall thence-
forth form a part of the original road, and shall constitute a
part of the division line between the aforesaid counties, and
when the said road shall be approved and received by the
said courts, and not before, the said William R. Keene and
Thomas Roe may and they are hereby authorized to shut up
that part of the old road proposed to be straightened, and
all the expenses accruing in the premises shall he paid, one
half by the said William R. Keene, and the other half by
the said Thomas Roe.

CHAPTER 157.

Passed March
1, 1842.

An act for the incorporation of the Grand Lodge of the
United Stales, of the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows.

Incorporated.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General. Assembly of
Maryland, That John A. Kennedy, Horn R. Kneass, An-
drew E. Warner, James L. Ridgley, J. D. Williamson,
Isaac Heffley, William Warren, John E. Chamberlin, Rich-
ard Marley, Howell Hopkins, N. B. Leidy, Alavson Cook,
Thaddeus Davids, Mark P. Taylor, Samuel Lucas, S. Van
Sickle, Robert Neilson, Thomas Wildey, William Bayley,
diaries W. Bradley, John C. McKeldon and Jacob Hull,
Junior, the present officers of, and representatives in the
Grand Lodge of the United States of the Independent Or-
der of Odd Fellows, and their successors, be and they arc
hereby declared to he a community, corporation and body

Name and
style.

General pow-
ers.

politic, by the name and style and title aforesaid, and by that
name, 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 or bequests of any person or persons, bodies corpo-