1843

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

chap. 828.
Proviso.

in the same, and after the same shall have been patented,
the said Register is hereby required, then to issue a patent
to the said John B. Perdue, upon his certificate of resurvey
called Perdues Double Trouble, provided nevertheless, that
nothing herein contained, shall be construed to affect the
rights of any other person or persons, acquired before the
passage of this act, and that the said Register, shall be
further satisfied before he issues a patent on said certificate
of resurvey, that the composition money due in the Trea-
sury on said certificates has been fully paid according to
law.

Upon pay-
ment of com-
position mo-
ney, patent to
issue.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That if said composition
money has not been yet paid, upon the payment thereof
said Register is hereby authorised and directed to issue said
patent or patents as directed by the first section of this act

CHAPTER 328.

Passed March
9, 1844.

An act to incorporate the Infant School Society of Balti-
more.

Incorporated.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Martha Mankin, Achsah Wilkins, Ann
Power, Laura Tiffany, Fanny Purviance and others, mem-
bers of an association known as the Infant School Society
of Baltimore, be and the same are hereby incorporated
under the name, style and title ofthe Infant School Society

Education of
children.

of Baltimore.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the object of
the said corporation shall be the education of children of
tender years, and that the members of the said corporation
shall be subject to the following articles as fundamental

Articles.

rules for their government:
Article 1. Any person on the payment of ten dollars
at one time, shall be a member during life, and the payment
of one dollar annually shall constitute membership.
Art. 2. On the first Tuesday in May in every year,
the members of the society, after due notice in at least two
newspapers published in Baltimore, shall assemble at some
convenient place, appoint their chairman and secretary, and
then proceed to elect a board of fifty ladies, to whom shall
be entrusted the management of the institution, the board ot
managers shall at the. first stated meeting after their elec-
tion, choose a first, second, third and fourth directors, a
recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, and a trea-