1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 195.

Surplus.

county to be applied to such purposes as are now, or
may hereafter be provided for by law.

Commissioners na-

med.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That John Michaels, Jacob
Shimberger and Simon Markey, are by virtue of this
act appointed commissioners, to superintend the build-
ing of said bridge, and they shall require the person
or persons, who shall contract with them for the build
ing of said bridge to give bond with full and ample
security, for the faithful performance of the said con-

tract, and the compensation allowed to the bridge com-

missioners, for superintending and causing to have
erected, said bridge, shall be discretionary with the

commissioner of Baltimore county.

Repealing clause.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That all acts, or parts of
acts heretofore passed upon this subject inconsistent or
repugnant with the provisions of this act, be, and the
same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 195.

Passed Mar. 18,
1839.

An act to incorporate the Friendship Society of Balti-
more.

Persons incorporat-

ed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Richard C. Mason, Evan Hamilton,
S. F. Streeter, William Bayley, Stephen Broadbent,
M. Dorsey, and Levi Taylor, the present officers, di-
rectors and members of the Friendship Society, of the
City of Baltimore, and their successors, be, and they
are hereby declared to be a community corporation

Name and style.

and body politic, forever, by the name, style and title
of the Friendship Society of Baltimore, and by that

Privileges.

name, they and their successors, shall and may, at all
times hereafter, be capable in law, to have, receive and
retain to them and their successors, property, real and
personal, also devises and bequests of any person or
persons bodies, corporate and politic, capable of ma-
king the same, and the same at their pleasure to trans-
fer and dispose of in such manner, as they may think

Limit of property
$5000.

proper, Provided always, that the said corporation or
body politic, shall not at any time, hold or possess,
property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding in annual
value, five thousand dollars.