THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful for the said corporation to have a common seal for
their use, and the same at their pleasure to change, alter
and make anew, from time to time as they may think
best, and shall in general have and exercise all such
lights, privileges and immunities as by law are incident
and necessary to corporations, and what may be neces-
sary to the corporation herein constituted, and to enable
the members of said order to exercise all things concern-
ing the design of this corporation, for the benevolent re-
lief of the sick and distressed, and for the promotion of
their purposes generally.

CHAP. 322.

May use a
common seal.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful at any time for the said General Assembly to de-
mand a statement of its amount of property, real and
personal, belonging to the said corporation, and of the
debts due to and from the corporation, and the purposes
for which disbursements shall have been made, and shall
also have the right to authorise one or more persons to
inspect such general accounts in the books of the cor-
poration, as shall relate to such statement.

Legislature
may demand a
statement.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this corporation shall
not be permitted to issue any note, token, device, scrip or
other evidence of debt, to be used as currency.

Issues forbid.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall remain
in force for thirty years, and that the Legislature reserves
to itself the right to change, alter or annul this act of in-
corporation at pleasure.

CHAPTER 322.

Right reser-

ved.

A supplement to an act entitled, an additional supplement
to the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter
three hundred and twenty-three, entitled, an act relating
to Free Negroes and Slaves, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, chapter thirty-eight.

Passed March
10, 1347.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in any election district of Queen Anne's county,
where magistrate's courts are not in effective operation,
it shall and may be lawful for the justices of the orphans
court of said county, upon information lodged with them,
to have and to exercise all the powers in relation to the
hireing out of free negroes, with which the justices of

Orphans'
court to act.