1843

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

chap. 336.

and being desirous of returning the said negro slave to
Charles county, and to take from the county another negro
slave. Therefore,

May remove
negro.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said Ancns M. Hoffer, be and he is hereby autho-
rised to remove the said negro slave Austin, to Charles

Proviso

county, any law to the contrary notwithstanding; pro-
vided, the said Ancus M. Hoffer, shall remove from the
said county and Stale, another negro slave, and shall with-
in thirty days thereafter certify the fact to the clerk of the
county, and shall also file with the clerk a list with the
name and age of the said negro Austin, and also, the
name and age of the negro to be removed, to be re-
corded as required by the provisions of the act of assem-
bly of December session eighteen hundred and thirty-nine,
chapter fifteen.

CHAPTER 336.

Pasted March
9, 1844.

An act to incorporate the trustees of the Baltimore Hall
Association of the city of Baltimore.

Incorporated.

Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Jisssembly of
Maryland, That Elias Heiner, Augustus Webster, Ben-
jamin Kurtz, George W. Musgrave, H. V. D. Johns, Ste-
phen P. Hill, John A. Collins, Phillip Reigart, William
Crowe, B. C. H. Emory, Comfort Tiffany, George W.
Richardson, John F. McJilton, Ann C. D. Hinks, their
associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby
created a corporation and body politic, by the name and
style of the trustees of the Baltimore Mall Association, and
by that name shall have perpetual succession, be able and
capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
answer and be answered, in any court of law or equity, to
make and use a common seal, and the same to alter and
amend or change at pleasure to ordain and establish such
by-laws and regulations as shall be pecessary or convenient
for conducting the affairs of said corporations, provided
such by-laws or regulations be not repugnant to the con-
stitution of the United States or of the State of Maryland.

Officers to
consist of 14
trustees.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the officers of this
association shall consist of fourteen trustees, not more than
three of whom shall belong to any one denomination of
Christians, and a majority of whom shall always be neces-