THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

cember session, eighteen hundred and forty-five, chapter
two hundred and sixty-nine be, and the same is hereby
ratified and confirmed.

CHAPTER 307.

CHAP. 307.

An act for the incorporation of Susquehanna Division,

Number Twenty-nine, of the Sons of Temperance.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Thomas Bond, Edwin Wilmer, Richard
Thomas, Alexander Brawn, Jefferson Ramsey, Wood-
ward Abrahams, Alonzo Snow, Greenberry Purnell,
Robert Smith, John McCullough, John D. Marshbank,
James A. Davis, William Ore, and others, officers and
members of Susquehanna Division, Number Twenty-nine,
of the Sons of Temperance, 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
Susquehanna Division, Number Twenty-nine, of the
Sons of Temperance, and by that name, they and their
successors shall and may, at all times hereafter, be ca-
pable in law to have, hold, receive and retain to them
and their successors, property, real or personal, either or
both, also devises or bequests of any description of pro-
perty, from any person or persons capable in law of
making the same, aud the same at their pleasure to trans-
fer or dispose of, in such manner as they may think
proper; provided always, that the said corporation or
body politic, shall not at any one time hold or possess
property, real, personal or mixed, which shall be of the
annual value of, or yield an income annually, exceeding
three thousand dollars.

Passed Feb'y

19, 1847.
Incorporated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation,
and their successors, by the name and title aforesaid,
shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and
he defended in all or any courts of justice, and before all
or any judges, officers or persons, in all and singular
any notions, matters or demands whatsoever.

Corporate
powers.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful for the said corporation to make by-laws, and
have a common seal for their use, and the same at their
will and pleasure ro change, alter and make anew, from

Make by- laws
and have a
common seal.