1807.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
CXXXIII.
E. Finley, &c.
incorporated,
&c.

II. Ba 'IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Ebenezer Finley, president, Peter
Little, first vice-president, William Krebs, second vice-president, Leonard Frailey, Owen Dorsey
and Samuel Howard, and such other persons as now are or hereafter may become members of the
said company, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, one community, corporation and body
politic, for ever hereafter, by the name and style of The New-Market Fire Company, and by that
name they shall be and are hereby made able and capable in law to have, purchase, receive, possess,
enjoy and retain, to them and their successors, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, or other here-
ditaments, and the same to grant, demise, alien or dispose of, in such manner as they may judge
most conducive to the interest of the company; provided nevertheless, that the said corporation or
body politic, shall not at any one time hold or possess property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding
the sum of one thousand dollars per annum.

Company may
sue, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company, and their successors, by the aforesaid name,
shall for ever hereafter be able and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
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 times, and places as they may agree upon, and to ordain,
establish and put in execution, such by-laws, ordinances and regulations as to them shall seem con-
ducive to the interest of the said company, and necessary to the good government and orderly
management thereof, the same not, being contrary to the laws of this state or of the United States, and
generally to do and execute all such acts, matters and. things, as to them shall or may appertain to do.

CHAP. CXXXIV.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

An ACT to vest certain powers in the orphans court of Charles coun-
ty, and for other, purposes.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that Morris I. McDonough, late of
Charles county, deceased, by his Last will and testament devised certain property, real and
personal, to Richard Barnes, Robert Fergusson and Benjamin Contee, in trust, for the purposes
herein after mentioned, and requested that his. executrix should petition the general assembly of
Maryland to pass n law to authorise and empower the orphans court to assume the control over the.
said property, and superintend the application thereof: And whereas the executrix named in the
said will is now dead: And whereas it is wise and humane that the object of the said Morris I.
McDonough should be carried, into execution, but in as much as from the very organization of the
orphans court they cannot exercise that immediate and attentive control over a school which is
necessary for the government and the police thereof, and as it appears to this general assembly that
the object of the said Morris I. McDonough would be effectually insured by vesting the said funds in
a body politic, expressly created therefor, and by authorising and empowering the said orphans court
to exercise a superintending power over the said corporation; therefore,

Court may ap-
point trustees,
&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the orphans court for Charles
county be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, at their session next after the passage
o; this act, or at some future session, to nominate and appoint five sensible and discreet men,
living in the said county, as trustees under this law and to cause the said nomination and appoint-
ment tu b; certified, under their seals of office, and to. be deposited in the clerk's office of said
county, to be. by him recorded.

Trustees incor-
porated, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, so by the said court nominated and appointed,
and their successors, to be elected in the manner herein after prescribed, shall be and they are here-
by erected, established and declared to be, one community, corporation and body politic, with per-
petual succession, in deed and in law, to all intents and purposes connected with the said institu-
tion, by the name of The Trustees of the McDonough Charity School, by which name and title
they, the said trustees, and their successors, shall be competent and capable in law and equity to
take and hold for themselves, and their successors, for the use of the said schools, all the real
and personal property which the Morris I. McDonough devised or bequeathed to them the said
Richard Barnes, Benjamin Contee and Robert Fergusson, and the same to grant, bargain, sell and
convey, for the use of the said schools, in such manner and upon such terms as the orphans court
for the time being shall direct, and to invest the monies arising from the same in such funds as the
said orphans court shall direct..

How vacancies
are to to filled.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That at all times hereafter, when any vacancy or vacancies shall hap-
pen in the said community of the said trustees, by the death, resignation or refusal, of any one or