THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

regulate the election or other admission of members, the

condition and evidence of membership; the right and
manner of voting at elections of managers; appoint
judges of such elections, and the time, place and man-
ner of holding them; to provide for the receipt and
collection of donations, contributions, or other funds; to
provide for the distribution or other application of all
properly and funds which they, or the said trustees, shall
receive or obtain, to the payment of all necessary ex-
penses which they shall incur; and generally to do all
such lawful acts, and pass all such by-laws as shall be
necessary to the exercise of the powers vested in them
by this act, and to effect the benevolent object of their
association.

CHAP. 288.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any married woman
contributing to said society, according to the by-laws

thereof, shall have and enjoy all the rights of voting and
acting as members and oilicers of said society, as if she

were a feme sole.

Married wo-

man.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the properly of this

society shall be exempt from taxation until the Legisla-

Exempt from
taxation.

ture shall otherwise direct.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That in selection of
children, as pupils, for the benefit of this act, no regard

shall be had, no preference given to the children of any
particular denomination of Christians.

No prefer-
ence to deno-
minations.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That nothing herein con-
tained, shall be so construed as to authorise or empower
said corporation to is.iue any note, certificate, token or
other evidence of debt to be used as currency; and the
right is hereby expressly reserved to the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, at its pleasure, to alter, amend or

annul this act of incorporation.

CHAPTER 288.

Issues forbid.

Right reserv-
ed.

A supplement to the act entitled, an act to regulate sales
by Public Auction, passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and twenty-seven, chapter one hundred and
eleven.

Passed March
10, 1847.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all real estate, and all goods, wares,
merchandise, stocks, and every other species of personal

Rate of duties.