FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

Deford, William Cox, Joseph A. Thompson, Charles R.
Cunnengham, J. H. Mullen, John A. Atkinson, Samuel S.
Ryland, Robert M. Clery, William Batter, Henry Kone,
Charles Wicker, Charles H. Turner, Thomas Watson,
Thomas Hooper, John Rummel, Samuel Ashcom, William
Thompson, David Hartzell, William M. Wilson, William
Coale, John Napier, William McLean, Jacob Wiker, John
Spening, William B. Phillips, Emanuel Chipman, James
Steine, Samuel C. Bordley, Wesley Mason, the officers and
members of Gratitude Lodge, number one, of the Order of
Independent Odd Fellows, attached to the Grand Lodge of
Maryland, and their successors, be and they are hereby in-
corporated and made a body politic and corporate, by the
name and number of Gratitude Lodge number five, of the
Order of Independent Odd Fellows of the State of Mary-
land, and by that name they may sue and he sued, have a
common seal, and the same at their pleasure, alter and be
entitled to use the powers and privileges incident to such
corporations.

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Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation
shall be capable of taking and holding real and personal
estate not exceeding the value of ten thousand dollars, which
estate shall never be divided among the members of the
corporation, but shall descend to their successors for the
benevolent relief of the sick and distressed, the education
of the orphans of its members, and for the promotion of
their purposes generally.

May hold real
and personal
estate.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this corporation shall
not be permitted to issue any note, token, device, scrip, or
other evidence of debt, to be used as a currency.

Banking for-
bid.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That this act of incorporation
shall inure for thirty years from its passage, and that the
legislature reserves to itself the right to alter or annul this
act of incorporation at pleasure.

In force.

CHAPTER 193.

An act supplementary to an act, entitled an act to establish
Magistrates Courts, in the several Counties of this State,
and to prescribe their jurisdiction, so far as the same re-
lates to Charles County.

Passed March
3, 1842.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the county court in Charles county, shall
have concurrent jurisdiction with the Magistrates courts of
said county in all actions of replevin, trespass, trover and
of assault and battery.

Jurisdiction.