1843.

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 72.

In force one
year.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall not con-
tinue in force longer than one year from the passage thereof.

CHAPTER 72.

Passed Feb.
8, 1844.

An act to incorporate the beneficial society of Pilots of the
city of Baltimore.

Preamble,

Whereas Garrett W. Tracey, James Worthington,
Richard Kennard, John P. Sheahaw, Charles Smith, John
Guyther and Griffin Smith, by their petition to this Gen-
eral Assembly, have set forth that they and others of the
city of Baltimore, have formed themselves into an associa-
tion by the name of the Beneficial Society of Pilots of the
city of Baltimore, for the purpose of providing a fund by
small periodical contributions in time of health, for the sup-
port of such members of the association during sickness
as may hereafter be in need of assistance and of decently
interring them when dead, also to encourage morality and
repress vice among the members of the association, and
with a view the better to carry out the benevolent object of
the association have prayed to be incorporated. Therefore

Incorporated.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Garrett W. Tracy, James Worthington,
Richard Kennard, John P. Sheahaw, Charles Smith, John
Guyther and Griffin Smith, and their associates and succes-
sors, and those who may hereafter become members of the
said association be and they are hereby created and made a
body corporate by the name and style of the Beneficial
Society of Pilots of the city of Baltimore, and by that
name shall have succession for thirty years, and be capable
in law to sue and be sued, to adopt and have a corporate
seal, to take, hold, sell and transfer any estate, real, personal
and mixed, not exceeding in the whole the value of twenty
thousand dollars at one time, and to make a constitution,
by-laws, rules and regulations for the government and per-

Issues forbid

petuation of the said society.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That nothing herein con-
tained shall be so construed, as to authorise this corpora-
tion to issue any device, token, note, certificate or other
evidence of debt, to be used as currency.

Right reser-
ved.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the right is hereby
expressly reserved to the General Assembly of Maryland,
at its pleasure, to alter or repeal this act of incorporation.