WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

company; provided, nevertheless, that the said corporation
or body politic, shall not at any time hold or possess pro-
perty, real, personal or mixed, exceeding the sum of ten
thousand dollars.

CHAP. 175.

Limit.

SEC. 2. find be it enacted, That the said company and
their successors by the aforesaid name, shall forever here-
after be able and capable in law, to sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, de-
fend and be defended, in all or any court of justice what-
soever; and also to have, make and use a common seal,
and the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure, and
to assemble and meet at such times and places as they

Legal capacity.

may agree upon; and to ordain, establish and put in execu-
tion, such by-laws, ordinances and regulations as to them
shall seem to be conducive to the interest of the said com-
ny, 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.

Make by-laws.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That nothing herein con-
tained shall be so construed as to authorize or empower
said corporation to issue any notes, token or certificate or

Banking forbid.

credence of debt, to be used as a currency;and that noth-
ing herein contained shall be so construed as to deny the
right to the legislature to reclaim at pleasure, the rights and
privileges hereby granted.

CHAPTER 175.

Rights reserved.

An act to divorce Eliza. Ann Redding, of the City of Bal-
timore, from far husband James Piper Redding.

Passed Feb. 26,
1840.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Eliza Ann Redding, of the city of Balti-
more, be and she is hereby divorced from her husband
James Piper Redding, a vinculo matrimonii.

Divorce.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all the estate, both real
and personal, of which the said Eliza Ann Redding is now
seized or possessed, or to which she is now or may here-
after be entitled by gift, descent, bequest, inheritance or de-
vise, or to which her husband, the said James Piper Red-
ding, is or might be entitled by virtue of such marriage,

Rights secured.