WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

bailiff to each jury, and that the said sheriff shall be enti-
tled to charge and receive of Frederick county, the sum
of one dollar and fifty cents per day for each bailiff afore-
said, to be levied and paid as other court charges.

CHAPTER 162.

CHAP. 163.

Compensation.

An act to divorce Susannah Jones, from her husband John

Jones.

Passed Feb. 13,
1840.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Susannah Jones, of the city of Baltimore, be and
she is hereby divorced from her husband John Jones, a
mensa et thoro.

CHAPTER 163.

Divorce.

An act to incorporate the Friendship Academy, in Anne
Arundel County.

Passed Feb. 21,
1840.

WHEREAS, application has been made to the General
Assembly of Maryland, for the purpose of a law to in-
corporate the Friendship Academy, in Anne Arundel
county — therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Benjamin Carr, Joseph G. Harrison and
John Scrivener, be and they are hereby appointed the first

Trustees named.

trustees of said academy; and the said trustees, and their
successors, to be elected in the manner hereinafter men-
tioned, shall be and they are hereby declared to be one

Incorporated.

and purposes, connected with the said institution, by the
name and style of the Friendship Academy; by which

Name and style.

name and title, they and their successors shall be compe-
tent and capable in law and equity, to take and hold to
themselves and their successors, for the use of the said
academy, any estate in messuages, lands, tenements, an-
nuities, goods, chattels, monies or effects, by gift, graut
or bargain, sale, conveyance, devise or bequest, of any

Corporate pow-.

ers.

person or persons whatsoever; provided, the same do not
exceed in the whole, clear yearly value of two thousand

Limit.