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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Thomas F. White, Daniel Saylor, A.
M. L. Bush, Henry S. Shaffner, McTophan Evans,
William R. Beall, H. D. Wineon, Asa Ricketts, O. S.
Crampton, George A. D. Clarke and Henry Boerner,
officers and members of Mount Carmel Encampment
Number Seven, of the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows of the State of Maryland and their successors be,
and they are hereby declared to be a community, corpo-
ration and body politic, by the name, style and title of
the Mount Carmel Encampment Number Seven, of the
Independent Older of Odd Fellows of the State of Ma-
ryland, and by that name they and their successors shall
and may at all times hereafter, be capable in law to have,
receive and retain to them and their successors, proper-
ty, real and personal; also devises and bequests of any
persons, bodies corporate or politic, capable of making
the same; and the same, at their pleasure, to transfer
or dispose of in such manner as they may think proper ;
provided always, that the said corporation or body poli-
tic shall not at any time hold or possess property, real,
personal or mixed, exceeding in value the sum of five
thousand dollars.
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Incorporated.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
and their successors, by the name and title aforesaid,
shall be hereafter capable in law to sue and be sued, to
plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto,
defend and be defended in all or any courts of justice,
and before all or any judges, officers or persons whatso-
ever in all and any singular actions and matters what-
soever.
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Corporate
powers.
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