1841.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

chap. 263.

proven be sufficient to entitle the party to the same under
the provisions of this act, and in all cases where a divorce
is decreed, the court passing the same shall have full power
to award alimony to the wife and to award to the wife such
property or estate, as she had when married or the value of
the same or of such part thereof as may have been sold or
converted by the husband, having regard to the circum-
stances of the Husband at the time of the divorce, or such
part of any such property as the court or chancellor may
deem reasonable, and also have power to order and direct
who shall have the guardianship and custody of the chil-
dren and be charged with their support and maintenance.

May procure
testimony.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That in all cases where the
facts are disputed, the same proceedings shall be had to pro-
cure testimony which arc now used in suits in chancery.

Reside two
years in the
state.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That no person shall be enti-
tled to make application for a divorce under this act where
the causes lor divorce occurred in another State, unless such
person so applying shall Have resided within this State for
two years next preceding his or her application.

CHAPTER 263.

Passed March
9, 1842.

An act to incorporate the Cumberland Literary Society.

incorporated

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That W. W. McKaigg, Joseph Shriver, John
Beall, John Heye, Hanson B. Pigman, John M. Buchanan,
Samuel M. Semmes, Thomas J. McKaigg, Jonathan M.
Magruder, E. T. Shriver, George Lynn, L. H. Johns, Jes-
se Winecoff, L. Helleary, T. F. White, George Thruston,
S. H. McDonald, Dentin Brown, Thomas Perry, S. P.
Smith, J. M. Smith, J. M. Maguire, R. D. Johnson, James
Black, G. W. Devecman, P. A. Haley, Alexander King, J.
P. Hollistrell, E. Edgerton, H. G. Greives, J. H. Gordon,
H. S. Stevens and their associates and successors, be and
they are hereby created a body corporate, under the name
and style of the Cumberland Literary Society, for the sole
and exclusive purpose of establishing and continuing a libra-
ry of such books, periodicals or other publications, as they
may from time to time purchase or subscribe to, and that
they shall have and are hereby vested with power to sue
and be sued, to have and use a common seal and enact such
by-laws as may be necessary for their regulations.