THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

CHAPTER 73.

CHAP. 74.

An act to make valid the acts of James F. Mills, Littleton

Powell, Robert Fookes and George Parker, as Justices
of the Peace, in and for Worcester County.

Passed Feb.
19, 1847.

Be it enacted by the General. Assembly of Maryland,
That all the acts of James F. Mills, Littleton Powell,

Robert Fookes and George Parker, as justices of the
peace in and for Worcester county, between the twenty-
eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-six,
and the twenty-first day of March following, be and the
same are hereby made as valid and binding as though
the said justices had acted in strict compliance with the
provisions of the act of Assembly, passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and forty-three, chapter two
hundred and eighty-four.

CHAPTER 74.

Acts made va-
lid.

An act to incorporate the William H. Watson Division,
Number Thirty nine, of the Order of the Sons of Tem-
perance.

Passed Feb.
16, 1847.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That A Hyam, Peter Walstrom, O. W.
Mulliken, Edmund Chaytor, Charles Reeder, Joseph
Badger, Ambrose Hanson, James Seaton, John D. Sewell,
James Paul and others, the officers and members of the
William H. Watson, Number Thirty-nine, of the Order

Incorporated.

of the Sons of Temperance and their successors be, and
they are hereby created and declared to be a community,
corporation and body politic, by the name and number,
style and title, of the William H. Watson Division,
Number Thirty-nine, of the Order of the Sons of Tempe-

Name, number

and style.

rance, and by that name and number, they and their suc-
cessors, shall and may be capable in law, to sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered
unto, defend and be defended in all or any courts of jus-
tice, and before all or any judges, officers or persons
whatsoever, in all and singular actions, matters and de-
mands whatsoever.

Corporate

powers.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
and their successors, by the name and title aforesaid,
shall, and may at all times hereafter be capable in law to
have, receive and retain to them and their successors,

May hold pro-
perty &c.