WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

Richardson, and others, now are or may hereafter become
members of said corporation hereby created, or may be ad-
mitted into said corporation, agreeably to the constitution
of the same, and their successors, are hereby declared to
be one community, corporate and body politicly the name,
style and title of the Superanuated Fund Society, for the
relief of the superanuated and disabled ministers of the
Maryland Annual Conference, their widows and orphans.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the affairs of said so-
ciety shall be conducted by eight managers, chosen annu-
ally, in accordance with the constitution of the society, to
perform such duties as are or may be prescribed in the said
constitution; and in all cases with this proviso, that the
aforesaid managers shall retain their offices until their
successors are elected.

CHAP. 285.

Name and style.

To choose eight
managers.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the present members
of the said society, and their successors, by their corporate
name, shall and may have succession for the term of thir-
ty years; and shall and may be at all times during said
term, persons able and capable in law, to purchase, take,
have and enjoy, to them and their successors, in fee or life
estate or estates, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, chat-
tels, bank stock, registered debts or public securities with-
in the State aforesaid, by gift, purchase or devise of, or
from any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate,
capable to make the same, at their pleasure, to alien, sell,
transfer or lease in such manner as they may judge most

Corporate pow-

ers.

conducive to the benevolent purposes of said society; pro-
vided, that the said estates, chattels, lands, rents, annui-
ties and so forth, at no time amount to a sum over twenty
thousand dollars.

Proviso.

SEC 4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
and their successors, by the name aforesaid, shall be forever
hereafter, able and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend
and be defended, in all or any of the courts of justice, and
before all or any of the judges, officers or persons whatso-
ever; and that all legal process that may be hereafter in-
stituted by the said corporation, shall be in the name of the
managers of the Superanuated Fund Society of the Ma-
ryland Annual Conference.

Legal capacity.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful for the said corporation to have a common seal for
their use, and the same at their pleasure to destroy or
alter.

May have a seal.