1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 129.

society, duly executed and delivered, such person or
persons shall be entitled to receive all the benefits
from such insurance, and be subjected to all the lia-
bilities, in the same full and ample manner as if he or
they had signed the deed of settlement, as provided for
in the second section of said society.

Inconsistent
acts repealed.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That all acts, and parts
of the original charter of said company, and provisions
inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby
repealed.

When to be
operative.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the provisions of
this act shall not take effect until the same shall have
received the approbation of a majority of the members
of said society.

CHAPTER 129.

Passed Feb. 13,
1850.

An act to Incorporate the Saint James Building Asso-
ciation of Baltimore.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, J. George Huber, Joseph Eberhart, John
Francis Schieser, John Heatheimer, Michael Wehr,
Lucius Moors, Joseph Batzer, Peter Fisher, John Bat-
zer, and others, of the city of Baltimore, have formed
themselves into an association, under the name and
style of the Saint James Building Association of Balti-
more; and whereas, the object, of the said association is
to encourage economy and frugality, whereby the mem-
bers thereof may in an easy and secure manner, accu-
mulate a sum sufficient to build or purchase a domicil
for their families — Therefore,

Incorporated
&c.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland; That the aforesaid members of said asso-
ciation, as well as those who hereafter, according to the
constitution and bye-laws of said association, shall be-
come members thereof, be and they are hereby created
and made a body politic and corporate, by the name and
style mentioned in the preamble to this act, and by that
name shall have succession for twenty years, and shall
be capable by law to hold and dispose of property, to
sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, answer and
defend, and be answered and defended in all courts of
law and equity in this State, or elsewhere, to receive
and make all deeds, transfers, contracts, covenants, con-
veyances and giants whatsoever, to have, make, use a