1846.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 11.

Passed Jan.
13, 1846.

CHAPTER 11.

An act for the incorporation of Eutaw Division Number
Twenty-three of the Sons of Temperance of the city of
Baltimore.

Incorporated.

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That James Armitage, Uriah Miles, Charles
F. Marrow, Isiah Holland, Richard K. Boyle, John
Yarrington, Henry E. Hueber, J. L. Bump, John C.
McEhay, N. D. Wheatly, John W. Bennett, Jacob
Winding, Jacob Sarbaugh, David Robinson, John W.
Seidenstricker, William Grindall, officers and members
of Eutaw Division Number Twenty-three, of the city of
Baltimore, and their successors be, and they are hereby
incorporated and made a body politic, and corporate by
the name and number of the Eutaw Division Number
Twenty-three, of the Sons of Temperance of the city of
Baltimore, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded and have a common seal, and the same
at their pleasure to alter or renew, and be entitled to use
the powers and privileges incident to such corporations.

Twenty thou-
sand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
shall have power to take and hold real and personal pro-
perty not exceeding in value at any one time the sum of
twenty thousand dollars, which property shall never be di-
vided among the members of the said corporation, but
shall descend to their successors to be applied for the
relief of sick and distressed members of the said corpo-
ration, the education of the children of deceased mem-
bers, and for the promotion of these objects generally.

Corporate
powers.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the corporation afore-
said shall have power to alter and amend the by-laws
thereof at pleasure: provided, that such alteration and
amendment do not in any way conflict with the laws of
the State of Maryland, the laws of the United States, or
the laws of the Grand Division of the Sons of Tempe-
rance, of the State of Maryland.

Issue forbid.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
shall not be allowed to issue any note, token, device,
scrip or other evidence of debt to be used as a currency.

Enure for 30
years.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act of incorpora-
tion, shall enure for thirty years from the passage thereof,
and that the Legislature reserve to itself the right to alter
and annull the same at pleasure.