1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 276.

on until it has been two full months before the society,
and shall not take effect until three-fourths of the mem-
bers residing in the city of Baltimore are in favor there-
of.

Banking forbid.

SEC. 10. 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

Rights reserved.

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.

In force.

SEC. 11. And be if enacted, That this act shall be and
remain in full force until the first day of January, eighteen
hundred and sixty, and until the end of the next session
of the General Assembly which shall happen thereafter.

CHAPTER 275.

Passed Mar. 17,
1840.

An act to divorce Robert Askey, of Harford County,
from his wife Margaret Askey.

Divorce.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Robert Askey, of Harford county, be and he is here-
by divorced from his wife Margaret Askey, a vinculo
matrimonii.

CHAPTER 276.

Passed Mar. 17,
1840.

An act to incorporate the Maryland Institute.

Individuals in-

corporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That John Prentiss, F. H. Davidge, Edmund
Smith, Josiah C. Robinson, John F. Hey and Richard
Conolly, and their associates and successors, be and they
are hereby created a corporation and body politic, by the

Name and style.
Legal capacity.

name and style of the Maryland Institute of Education,
and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and
be able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be de-

May hold pro-
perty.

fended in any court of law or equity; to purchase, receive
and hold, by "gift, grant, devise or in any other lawful mode,
real estate in fee simple, or in any other less estate, not