THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

CHAPTER 210.

An act to incorporate the Middletown Horse Guards.

CHAP. 211.

Passed March
4, 1847.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
Samuel Bowles, Hezekiah Floyd, Richard J. Lamar,
William K. Creager and others, who are or may here-
after become memrbers of a volunteer corpsof cavalry,
recently organised in Frederick county, in this State, and
their successors be, and they are hereby declared to be a
body corporate by the name, style and title of the Mid-

dletown Horse Guards,and by that nama may hold real

and personal property, not exceeding in value the sum of
two thousand dollars, current money, exclusive of the

arms and equipments of the said company.

Incorporated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said company and
their successors, by the aforesaid name, shall be capable
in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer
and be answered, defend and be defended, in all and
every court of justice whatsoever, and before any judge
or justice in all and singular actions and demands and to
ordain, establish and enforce such by-laws, ordinainces and
regulations, as to them shall seem conducive to the interest
of said company, and necessary to the good government
and management thereof, not being contrary to the ex-
sisting laws of this State, or of the United States.

Corporate
powers.

May make

by-laws.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That nothing herein con-
tained shall be so construed as to authorise or empower
said corporation to issue any notes; tokens or certificates,
or evidence of debt; to be used as a currency, and that
nothing herein contained, shall be so construed as to deny
the right of this General Assembly of Maryland to repeal
or modify this act at its pleasure.

CHAPTER 211.

Issues forbid.

Right reserv-

ed.

A supplement to the act relating to Public Roads in Kent
County, passed December session, eighteen hundred and
forty-four, chapter one-hundred and twenty-three.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the provisions in the act to which this a supplement

Passed March
23, 1847.

Repealed.