THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

at discretion, change a common seal, may ordain by-
laws, rules and regulations, such as said corporate body
may deem proper, not inconsistent with this act, or the
law and constitution of this State, or of the United
States; and, in like manner, may establish a constitution
for said corporate body.

CHAP. 30.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporate
body may have such officers or managers and otherwise,
(who shall exercise the powers conferred on this corpo-
ration) as may be instituted and designated by the by-
laws or constitution aforesaid, and to be elected at such
times and for such period, and in such manner, and with
such qualifications, duties and powers as the said by-
laws or constitution of the said society may prescribe.

Officers elect-
ed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
shall be deemed to have the power at any time hereafter
to procure and collect a general and miscellaneous li-
brary, to be controlled and availed of according to the
rules and provisions in the constitution or by-laws of the
corporation.

To collect a
library.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
shall be so construed as to authorise the said corpora,
tion to issue any note, token, scrip, device or other evi-
dence of debt, to be used as a currency.

Issues forbid.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the legislature re-
serves to itself the right to alter or annul this act of in-
corporation at pleasure.

CHAPTER 30.

Right reserv-
ed.

An act for the relief of Johannes Diemer, of Baltimore
County.

Passed Jan.
16, 1846.

WHEREAS, it is represented to the General Assembly,
on behalf of Johannes Diemer, that he has been a resi-
dent of the State of Maryland lor the last seven years,
and has declared his intention to become a citizen of the
United States in the office of the Circuit Court of the
United States for the fourth Circuit, in and for the Ma-
ryland District, on the ninth day of October, in the year
eighteen hundred and forty-five, and has become the
holder of real property in this State, but cannot exercise
a legal control or disposition of the same, because he is
not a naturalized citizen of the United States, therefore
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Preamble.