LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1842

CHAPTER 56.

CHAP. 56.

An act for the incorporation of Neilson Lodge, No. 39 of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Hillsborough,
Caroline County.

Passed Feb.
6, 1843.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That William B. Tillotson, George B Wilson
James II. Barwick, Davis Dixon and Saulsbury Corkran,
and others, members of Neilson Lodge No. 39 of the In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and their successors, be
and they are hereby declared to be a community, corporation
and body politic, by the name, style and title of Neilson
Lodge, No. 39, of the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, 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 corporate or politic, capable of making the same
and the same at their pleasure to transfer or dispose of in
such manner as they may think proper; provided always,
that the said corporation, or body politic, shall not at any
time hold or possess property, real, personal or mixed, ex-
ceeding in value the sum of five thousand dollars.

Incorporated.
Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
and their successors, by the name and title aforesaid shall
be thereafter capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and
be defended, in all or any courts of justice, and before all
or any judges, officers or persons whatsoever in ail and
singular, actions, matters or demands whatsoever

Corporate
powers.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful for the said corporation to make bye-laws and have
a common seal for their use, and the same at their will and
pleasure to change alter and make anew, from time to
time, as hey may think best, and shall in general have and
exercise all such rights, privileges and immunities as bye-
jaws are incident or necessary to corporations and what
may be necessary to the corporation herein constituted

Common seal.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the general assembly of
Maryland reserves the right to change, alter or annul this
act of incorporation at any time.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act shall
be so construed as to authorise the said corporation to issue
any note scrip, token, device or other evidence of debt to
be issued as a currency.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act of incorpora-
tion shall endure for thirty years, and that the legislature;

Rights reser-
ved.

Issues forbid.

To enure for
30 years.