THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

CHAPTER 293.

CHAP. 293.

An act for the incorporation of Good Samaritan Division,
Number Five, Sons of Temperance, of the City of Balti-
more.

Passed Mar.
7, 1846.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Samuel Reck, Philip Auld, A. J. Gil-
lingham, E. W. Ruarch, Alfred Davidson, Edward Heff-
ner, Joseph Badgen, P. S. Vinton, Edward Browning,
James McClennan, John Pryor, A. Hyam, S. H. Manly,
Samuel R. Vinton, Samuel Benner, John J. Dineken,
and James Harrington, officers and members of Good
Samaritan Division, number five, Sons of Temperance, of
the city of Baltimore, and their successors, be, and are
hereby incorporated and made a body politic and cor-

Incorporated.

porate, by the name and number of Good Samaritan Di-
vision, number five, of the Sons of Temperance, of the city
of Baltimore, and by that name may sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded, and have a common seal, and
the same at their pleasure, alter, and be entitled to use
the powers and privileges incident to such corporations.

Name and
number.

Legal capaci-
ty.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
shall have power to take and hold real and personal pro-
perty not exceeding in value at any one time the sum of
twenty thousand dollars, which property shall never be
divided among the members of the said corporation, but
shall descend to their successors, to be applied for the
relief of sick and distressed members of said corporation,
the education of the children of deceased members, and
for the promotion of these objects generally.

May hold real
and personal
property.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the corporation afore-
said shall have power to alter and amend the by-laws
thereof at pleasure; provided, that such alteration and
amendment does not in any way conflict with the laws
of the State of Maryland, the laws of the United States,
or the laws of the Grand Division of the Sons of Tem-
perance of the State of Maryland.

Alter and a-
mend by-laws.
Proviso.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
shall not be allowed to issue any note, token, device,
scrip or other evidence of debt, to be used as currency.

Issues forbid.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act of incorpora-
tion shall enure for forty years from the passage hereof,
and that the legislature reserves to itself the right to alter
and annul the same at pleasure.

Enure for 40
years.

Right reser-
ved.