1841.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 164.

CHAPTER 163.

Passed March
1, 1842

An act affecting the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery,
and the County Courts as Courts of Equity, and the mode,
and the time in which objections to the jurisdiction shall
be taken.

Not to rely on
objections to
jurisdiction,
etc. unless it
bad been
raised, etc.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That on. appeal to the court of appeals from any decree or
order of the court of chancery, or county court, as a court
of equity, the party or parties who may have been defen-
dants in the court below, shall not be permitted in the ap-
peal court to urge or rely upon any objection to the. juris-
diction of the court below, unless it shall appear by the
record that such objection was made, or raised in said court.

CHAPTER 164.

Passed March
1, 1842.

An act to incorporate the Washington Temperance Society
of Annapolis.

Incorporated

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Richard I. Crabb, William McNeir, Ed-
ward Brewer, of John, Jonathan Button, Richard Sands,
William Bryan, Philip A. Magruder, George McNeir,
James Callahan, John Miller, Martin F. Revell, Joseph J.
Nicholson, John Mitchell, Philip C. Clayton, Daniel Caulk,
David Hanlon, William S. Clayton, John E. Stalker, M.
Curran Karney, Hyde Ray Bowie 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 Wash-

Name and
style.

ington Temperance Society of Annapolis, 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 successors,
property, real and personal, also devises or bequests 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,

Proviso

provided always, that said corporation shall not at any time
hold or possess property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding
in value the sum of one thousand dollars, other than that
which may be invested in a hall to be erected for the pur-

Legal capa-
city.

poses of the society.
Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That the said corporation and their
successors, by the name and title aforesaid, shall be capable