1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 228.

ble in law to purchase, take, have and enjoy to them and
their successors, in fee or less estate or estates, any lands,
tenements, tents, annuities, chattels, United States Bank
stock, registered debt or other public securities, within
this State, and the same at pleasure, to alien, sell, trans-
fer or lease, in such manner as they may judge most con-

Proviso.

ducive to the uses of said society; provided nevertheless,
that the said corporation or body politic, shall not at any
one time, hold or possess property, real, personal or mix-
ed, exceeding in total value, the sum of thirty thousand
dollars.

Meet — elect
officers.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the members of the
said corporation and their successors, may meet together
on the first Monday in May, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and forty six, at some convenient
place in the city of Baltimore, and on the same day annual-
ly thereafter, and then and there elect the officers of the
said society, form such regulations and enact such by-
laws as may be necessary lor assuring and carrying into

Proviso.

effect the purposes of this act; provided, such rules, regu-
lations and by-laws, be not repugnant to the constitution
and laws of the United States, of the State of Maryland,
or of the corporation of the city of Baltimore.

Officers con-
tinue until first
election.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That all appointments of
officers for the said society, heretofore made by the mem-
bers thereof, in their private capacities, shall respective-
ly continue and be in full force until the time specified
by this act, for the first election of officers for the said
corporation.

Legal capaci-

ty.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
and their successors, by the name aforesaid; shall be for-
ever 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 our courts of justice,
and before all or any judges, officers or persons whatso-
ever, in all and singular actions, matters and demands
whatsoever, and that all legal process that may hereafter
be instituted by the said corporation, shall be in the name
of the president and vice president of the Marine Rail-
way and Screw Dock Beneficial Society, and that all
process that may be hereafter instituted against the said
society, shall be served on the president in behalf of the
same.

Common seal.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful for the said corporation and their successors for-
ever hereafter, to have a common seal for their use, and
the same, at the will and pleasure of them and their suc-