1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 307.
Proviso.

tion shall be paid by the said Basil Duvall, of Jesse; and
provided further, that the change shall not be made, un-
less such change be approved of by the commissioners of
Howard district.

CHAPTER 307.

Passed Mar. 17,
1840.

An act to incorporate the Christ Church Asylum, for Fe-
male Children.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, a number of ladies in the city of Baltimore,
desirous to afford to destitute female children the opportu-
nities of education and the means of support, have asso-
ciated themselves for the establishment and maintenance of
an institution to be devoted to those ends; and for the pro-
motion of their purpose, have asked that a charter be
granted them.

Individuals in-
corporated.

Corporate pow-

ers.

SECTION 1. Be it therefore enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That Mrs. Gettings, Mrs. Wyman,
Mrs. James Howard and Mrs. Jenkins, and all others, the
ladies now contributing, or hereafter to become contribu-
tors to the Christ Church Asylum for female children, be
and they are hereby constituted and created a body politic
and corporate by that name, and by the same name shall
be and they are hereby empowered to have and to use a
common seal, to implead and be impleaded; and to take
and convey lands, tenements, hereditaments, monies,
goods and chattels, to an amount not exceeding, in yearly
value, the sum of five thousand dollars.

How exercised.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the corporate powers
and capacity by this act conferred, shall be exercisable on-
ly for the support and education of female children; and
that when any parent, guardian or orphans' court of this
State, shall have placed any female child or children, shall
be subject to the regulations applicable by law to appren-
tices, until it shall be thought proper by said body corpo-
rate to bind them out, which it is hereby authorised to do
until they reach the age of eighteen, in the manner in
which other female children may be bound; provided, that
nothing herein contained be considered as abridging the
security afforded to such children by the laws concerning
apprentices.

Powers vested
in board gov'rs.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the authority herein-
before given to use a common seal, to implead and be im-