LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1842

and enjoy to them and their successors in fee or less estate
or estates, any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, chattels,
United State's stock, bank slocks, registered debt or other
public securities within this State, and the same at their
pleasure to alien, sell and transfer, or lease in such manner

CHAP. 173.

as they may judge most conducive to the charitable uses of
said society; provided nevertheless, that the said society
shall not at any one time hold or possess property real or
mixed, exceeding in total value the sum of ten thousand dol-
lars.

Proviso.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the members of said
corporation and their successors may meet on the second
Monday in December, in the year eighteen hundred and
forty-three, at some convenient place in the city of Balti-
more, and on the same day annually forever thereafter, then
and there to elect officers of the said society, form such
rules and regulations and enact such bye-laws as may be
necessary for assuring and carrying into effect the benevo-

May elect
officers, &c.

lent purposes of this act; provided such rules and regula-
tions and bye-laws be not repugnant to the constitution of
the United Stales, of the State of Maryland and of the cor-
poration of the city of Baltimore.

Provided.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
and their successors by the name aforesaid shall be able
and capable in law to sue and he sued, plead and be implead,
answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended in
all or any courts of justice, and before all or any judge or
judges, officers or persons whatsoever in all and singular
actions, matters and demands whatsoever, and all legal
process that may be instituted by the said corporation
shall be in the name of the president and officers of The
Second German Beneficial Association of the State of Ma-
ryland, and that all process that may hereafter be instituted
against said society shall be served on the president on be-
half of the same.

Corporate
powers.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That all appointments of of-
ficers for said society heretofore made by the members in
their private capacity shall respectively continue and he in
force until the time specified by this act for the first elec-
tion of officers for this corporation.

Officers ap-
pointed in pri-
vate capacity
to continue
until election.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful for said corporation, their successors forever here-
after to have a common seal for their use and the same at
the will and pleasure of them and their successors to change,
alter, break and make anew from time to time as they may
think best, and shall in general have and exercise all such
rights, privileges and immunities as by law are incident and
necessary to the corporations of this kind, and which may

Common seal.