THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846,

William Radcliff, Jacob Reed, J. Bowman, Henry Bless-
ing, William Wentz, Jonathan Smith, P. Ford, Jacob
Norris, J. Hagenberger, Thomas Hickman, P. Skinner,
Joseph Golden, George Pilmington, Stephen Ordner,
Robert Fish, and others, the officers and members of
Boone Division Number Thirty-three of the Sons of
Temperance of the State of Maryland, and their succes-
sors be, and they are hereby incorporated and made a
body politic and corporate by the name and number of
Boone Division Number Thirty-three of the Sons of
Temperance of the State of Maryland, and by that name,
may sue and be sued, and, hare a common seal, and the
same, at their pleasure to alter, and be entitled to use the

CHAP. 57.

powers and privileges incident to such corporation.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation

shall be capable in law of taking and holding real and

personal estate; also devises or bequest of any person or
persons, bodies corporate or politic, capable of making
the same, and the same at their pleasure to transfer or
dispose of in such manner as they may think proper;

May hold real
and personal

estate.

provided, that the said corporation or body politic, shall
not at any one time hold or possess property, real, perso-
nal or mixed, exceeding in value the sum of five thousand
dollars.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this corporation shall
have power to make, alter and amend their by-laws at
pleasure; provided, they do not conflict with the laws of
the United States, or the laws of the State of Mary-

May alter and
amend their
by-laws.

land.
SEC. 4. 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 a currency.

Issues forbid.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act of incorpora-
tion shall enure for thirty years from its passage, and that
the Legislature reserves to itself the right to alter or an-
nul this act of incorporation at pleasure.

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Enure for 30
years.

An act to change the names of Sarah E. F. Hopkins, Ada
Hopkins and Josephine Hopkins, of the City of Bal-
timore.

Passed Feb.
17, 1847.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, the names

Names chan-

ged.