1846.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 177.

constituted, to enable its members to exercise all things
concerning the design of this corporation, for the relief
of the sick and distressed, and for the promotion of their
benevolent purposes generally.

Pennission
necessary.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the funds and estate
of the corporation shall not, at any time be divided or
distributed amongst the members, or diverted from the
purposes contemplated by its formation, without the per-
mission of the General Assembly of Maryland first had
and obtained.

Enure for 50
years.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act of incorpo-
ration shall continue and exist for fifty years from its
passage, unless ihc General Assembly of Maryland shall
alter, amend or annul it, which right if reserved to the
Legislature to exercise at pleasure.

Issues forbid.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
shall be so taken or construed as to allow the said corpo-
ration to issue any note, token, scrip or device, to be is-
sued as a currency.

CHAPTER 177.

Passed March
5, 1847.

Made valid.

An act for the relief of Abner Hays.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the deed of mortgage executed by Daniel Lowman
to Abner Hays, dated the twenty-ninth day of April,
eighteen hundred and forty-two, and recorded among the
land records of Washington county, in liber Z Z, folios
one hundred and fifty and one hundred and fifty-one be,
and the same is hereby confirmed and made valid to all

Provisoes.

intents and purposes; provided, that in all other respects,
except in the omission of the certificate required to be
made in the acknowledgment thereof, by the act of eigh-
teen hundred and thirty-one, chapter two hundred and
five, section four, the said deed has been executed, ac-
knowledged and recorded according to law; and provi-
ded also, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as
to effect bona fide purchasers or third parties without
notice.