THOMAS G. PR ATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

county court shall, and may have and exercise jurisdiction
in all suits or actions commenced therein, where the debt,
damages, or thing claimed, or in action, shall exceed fifty

CHAP. 76.

dollars in value, any law to the contrary notwithstanding;
provided, however, that nothing herein contained, shall be
so construed, as to prevent the magistrate's courts of said
county, from having and exercising jurisdiction in any
case hereafter to be commenced before the same, in the
same manner, and to the same extent as they now do.

CHAPTER 76.

Proviso.

An act for the incorporation of Mount Sinai Temple of
Honor, Number Six of the Sons of Temperance, in the
City of Baltimore, State of Maryland.

Passed Feb.
16, 1847.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Thomas L. Murphy, John B. Letour-
nau, James Russel, Jonas Friedenwald, Thomas Crom-
well, Joseph Weathers, William S. Shoemaker, James
Essender, Adam Alberger, John R. Budd, Basil Sunder-
land, William Cooksey, Frederick Rawlings, Jonathan
Swainscott, Thomas K. Greenfield, Alfred Wright, Na-
thaniel Applegarth, William Duff, James D. Lowrey,
Samuel Chambers, officers and members of Mount Sinai
Temple of Honor, Number Six, of the Sons of Tempe-
rance of the city of Baltimore, and State of Maryland,
and their successors be, and are hereby incorporated,

Incorporated.

and made a body politic and corporate, by the name of
Mount Sinai Temple of Honor, Number Six, of the Sons
of Temperance, of the city of Baltimore, of the State of

Name.

Maryland, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded, and have a common seal, and the same
at their pleasure alter, and be entitled to use the powers
and privileges incident to such corporations.

Corporate
powers.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
shall have power to take and hold real and personal pro-
perty, not exceed in value at any one time, the sum of
five thousand dollars, which property shall never be di-
vided among the members of said corporation, but shall
descend to their successors, to be applied for the relief of
sick and distressed members of said corporation, the edu-
cation of deceased member's children, and for the promo-
tion of these objects generally.

Hold property
not exceeding
$5,000.