ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1807.

CHAP. CXLIV.

A Further supplement to the act, entitled, An act to incorporate
companies to make several turnpike roads through Baltimore coun-
ty, and for other purposes.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

WHEREAS it is represented to the general assembly, that in pursuance of the powers vested
in the commissioners of the Baltimore and York-town turnpike road, by the act to which this
is a further supplement, that they have opened subscription books, and there has been subscribed
the amount of the capital stock authorised by said act on said road, and they have petitioned that
they may be permitted immediately to commence turnpiking the same; and this assembly being of
opinion that their prayer is reasonable, therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That so much of the act, entitled, An
act to incorporate companies to make several turnpike roads through Baltimore county, and for other
purposes, as restrain the president and managers of the Baltimore and York-town turnpike road from
commencing their work on said road until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eight, or
that is anywise inconsistent with this act, shall be and is hereby repealed.

Part of an act
repealed.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners mentioned in
said act to which this is a further supplement, or a majority of them, and they are hereby required
and empowered, to hold their first election for president, managers and treasurer, on the sixteenth
day of January next, under the regulations and restrictions, and to be conducted in the same manner,
prescribed in the act to which this is a further supplement.

Commission-
ers, when to
hold their first
election, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the proceedings of the said commissioners in taking the subscrip-
tions aforesaid, be and they are hereby confirmed, and declared to be as binding on the subscribers
as though they had been made on the day or days prescribed by the aforesaid act.

CHAP. CXLV.

Proceedings
confirmed, &c.

An ACT for incorporating a society to educate and maintain poor
orphan and other destitute female children, by the name of The
Orphaline Charity School, and to repeal the act of assembly there-
in mentioned.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, that at November session, eighteen hundred
and one, a society was incorporated for the education and maintenance of poor female chil-
dren, under the style of The Trustees of the Female Humane Association Charity School, in the
charter whereof certain defects have been discovered, to the remedy of which all the patties con-
cerned have signified their assent; therefore,

Preamble

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the right reverend John Carroll,
bishop of the Roman catholic church, the reverend I. Daniel Kurtz, the reverend James Englis,
Charles Ridgely, of Hampton, Christian Keener, Peter Hoffman, and their successors in office, duly
elected in the manner herein after set forth, together with the present and future contributors to
the said charity school, be, and they are hereby declared to be, one community, corporation and body
politic for ever hereafter, by the name and style of The Trustees of the Orphaline Charity School,
and by that name they shall be and they are hereby made able and capable in law, to have, purchase
and receive, possess, enjoy and retain, to them and their successors as aforesaid, lands, tenements
and hereditaments, rents, annuities and pensions, in fee-simple, or for a term of years, life, lives or
otherwise, and also goods, chattels and effects, of what nature, quality or kind soever, by the gift,
bargain, sale or devise, of any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to make the
same, and the same to grant, demise, alien or dispose of, in such manner as the said trustees, by a
majority of voices, may judge most conducive to the use and benefit of said institution; provided
always, that a majority of the trustees shall be necessary to form a quorum for the transaction of
business, and also that the said corporation shall not, at any one time, hold or possess property, real,
personal or mixed, exceeding in value yearly the sum of three thousand dollars.

Rev. J. Carroll,
&c. incorpo-
rated, &c.