1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 258.

Name and style.

Legal capacity.

and Israel Cohen, and such other persons as now are or
may hereafter become members, shall be and they are here-
by created and made a body politic and corporate, by the
name, style and title of the Library Association of the
Mechanical Fire company, and by that name shall have
continued succession, and be able and capable in law to
sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, defend and
be defended in any court of law or equity in this State, or
elsewhere, and to make, have and use a common seal, and
the same to alter or renew at their pleasure.

Corporate pow-

ers.

SEC. 2. And, be it enacted, That said association shall
have power to hold stated meetings, to establish and put
in execution, alter or abolish such by-laws, rules and regu-
lations, as to them shall seem most conducive to the in-
terests of the association; provided, the same be not con-
trary to the laws of the State, or of the United States; to
purchase and hold a library and apparatus, and to pur-
chase, receive, hold and dispose of any other property, real
or personal, not at any time exceeding in amount ten thou-
sand dollars; and generally to do any other matter or thing
necessary to carry into effect the objects of the associa-
tion.

Banking forbid.

Rights reserved.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That nothing herein con-
tained shall be so construed as to authorise or empower
said corporation to issue any note, certificate, token, or
evidence of debt, to be used as currency; and the right is
hereby expressly reserved to the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, at its pleasure to alter, amend or annul this act of
incorporation.

CHAPTER 258.

Passed Mar. 16,
1840.

Levy to be made.

An, act for the relief of John Holland, Littleton D. Bevans
and Jesse Wilkinson, Esquires, of Worcester County.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the county commissioners of Worcester county, are
hereby authorised and required in their discretion, to levy
on the assessable property of said county, such sum or
sums of money as they may find to be due to John Hol-
land, Junior, Littleton D. Bevans, and Jesse Wilkinson,
Esquires, for services rendered by them as justices of the
district court of the first district of said county, previous
to the first day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.