LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1843

CHAPTER 234.

CHAP. 235.

A supplement to an act entitled, an act more effectually to pre-
vent damages by vessels to fisherys on the Suspuehanna
River and Chesapeake Bay and other purposes, passed
December session eighteen hundred and twenty, chapter one
hundred and ninety-nine.

Passed March
4, 1844.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all vessels and other obstructions mentioned in the
first section of the act to which this is a supplement, be
and the same is hereby made liable with the captains for
damages, according to the provisions of the act to which
this is a supplement.

Made liable
with Captains
for damages.

CHAPTER 238.

An act for the incorporation of Mount Moriah Lodge
number thirty-two, of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows in the town Clearspring.

Passed March
4, 1844.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Henry Rohrer, A. R. Socey, W. Knepper,
J. G. Brewer, J. S. Miller, William McKee, J. W. Miller,
G. F. P. Schwartz, H. W. Reeder, Alexander Reeder, &
Magruder, R. Ridgely and other officers and members of
Mount Moriah Lodge, number thirty-two, of the Indepen-
dent 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 Mount
Moriah Lodge, number thirty-two, of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, 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 suc-
cessors, property, real and personal, also devises or be-
quests of any person or persons, bodies corporate or politic,
capable of malting the same, and the same at their pleasure'
to transfer or dispose of, in such manner as they may think

Incorporated.

proper, provided always, that the said corporation or body
politic, shall not at any one time hold or possess property,
real, personal or mixed, exceeding in value the sum of four
thousand dollars.

Proviso.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
and their successors, by the name and title aforesaid, shall
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Corporate
powers.