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PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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1849.
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may be assessed and ascertained under the act of De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and forty-seven,
chapter two hundred and ninety-two, not exceeding
fifty dollars, and to pay the same to the parties respec-
tively entitled thereto under said act.
CHAPTER 233.
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CHAP. 233.
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An act to Incorporate the Covington School, in Somer-
set County.
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Passed Feb.
13, 1850.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That John Turner, Robert Walter,
William Waller, William J. Willing, and William
U. Roberts, and their associates and successors, to be
chosen in the manner hereinafter provided, be and they
are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name
and style of the Covington school, of Somerset county,
with perpetual succession, and by that name may sue
and be sued, may have and use a common seal, and the
same change or renew at pleasure, may take, hold,
possess, use and enjoy, any property or estate, real, per-
sonal, or mixed, by gift, devise, or otherwise, in fee
simple, or for any less estate, and may lease, sell, and
convey the same by deed or otherwise, as fully as any
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Incorporated,
&c.
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natural person can do; provided, that the said corpora-
tion shall not hold at. any lime, property to an amount
exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars.
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Proviso.
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SEC. 2 And be it enacted, That said trustees or a
majority thereof may, under their corporate name1
aforesaid, pass and make all such rules and regulations
for their own government, and for filling vacancies
which may occur in their body, by death, resignation
or otherwise, and for continuing the succession of the
said corporation, as to them may seem necessary and
proper, and not. inconsistent with the laws of this State,
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May establish
regulations.
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or of the United States; provided however, that the
number of the said trustees shall at no time exceed
five.
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Proviso.
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SEC. 3. And be if. enacted. That nothing herein
contained shall be so construed as to confer on the said
trustees, any banking privileges, or to authorise the issue
of any notes, scrip or device of any sort, to circulate as
currency and the General Assembly of Maryland, may
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Banking forbid.
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