1848

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

chap. 268.
Proviso.

their successors, lands, tenements, rents, annuities or other
hereditaments, and the same to grant, devise, alien or dis-
pose of in such manner as they may judge most condu-
cive to the interest of the company; provided, neverthe-
less; that the said corporation or body politic shall not at
any time hold or possess property real, personal or mix-
ed, exceeding twenty thousand dollars.

Corporate
powers.

Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That the said company and
their successors, by the aforesaid name shall be able and
capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be implead-
ed, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in
all or any courts of justice whatsoever; and also to have,
make and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter
and renew at pleasure, and also to assemble and meet at
such time and places as they may agree upon, and to or-
dain establish, and put in execution such by-laws, ordi-
nances and regulations as to them shall seem conducive to
the interest of said company, and necessary to the good
goveinment and ordeily management thereof, the same
not being contrary to the laws of this state or the United
States, or of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore;
and generally to do and execute all such acts, matters
and things as to them shall or may appertain to do.

tones forbid.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act be
construed so as to authorize the said corporation to issue
any note, token, device or other evidence of debt to be
used as currency.

To enure for
30 years.
Right reser-
ved.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That this act of incorpora-
tion shall enure for thirty years from its passage, and that
the legislature reserve to itself the light to alter and annul
this act of incorporation at pleasure.

CHAPTER 268.

Passed March
7, 1844.

An act to divide the second and third Election {Districts in
Worcester county into three Election Districts.

Commission-
ers, upon con-
firmation of
act

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
and the confirmation of the same by the next general
assembly, that James F. Mills, Zadock Bowen and John
F. Purnell, be commissioners appointed, whose duly it
shall be to lay out and establish a new election district by