1844.

THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 123.

laws and regulations, as may be necessary and convenient
for the conducting the affairs of the corporation; provided,
the same be not contrary to the laws of this State or of the
United States.

To hold pro-
perty.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
shall be capable in law to have, take, receive, and hold
property real and personal, also devises and bequests of
any person or persons, and the same to dispose of at

Proviso.

pleasure; provided always, that the said corporation shall
not at any time hold or possess property real, personal or
mixed, exceeding in value the sum of five thousand dol-
lars.

Issues forbid.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act,
shall be so construed as to authorise the said corporation
to issue any note, token, device or other evidence of debt,
to be used as a currency.

Continue 20
years.

Right reserv-

ed.

SEC. 4 And be it enacted, That this act of incorpora-
tion, shall continue for twenty years from its passage, and
the right is hereby reserved to the Legislature, to alter or
annul this act at pleasure.

CHAPTER 123.

Passed Feb.
21, 1845.

An act entitled, a supplement to an act passed December
session eighteen hundred, chapter fifty-eight, for the im-
provement of the Public Roads of Kent County.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly,
that doubts are entertained whether the levy court of Kent
county, have power under the provisions of the original-
act to which this is a supplement, to alter or change any
of the public roads in said county, without conforming to
the conditions prescribed in the seventh section of said
act; AND WHEREAS, in very many cases it appears un-
necessary and burthensome, that the county should be
faxed with the expenses incident to a strict conformity
thereto—Therefore,

Made lawful.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
it shall and may be lawful for the levy court of Kent coun-
ty, on application in writing signed by all the owners and
proprietors of the lands, through which any proposed
alteration of the public roads may pass, to appoint one or
more members of their body, for the purpose of altering
and straightening any such old road laid out as a public
road, whose duty it shall be to view the road so applied