PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

184t.

CHAPTER 265.

CHAP. 265.

An act to Incorporate the Bay side Lodge, Number
Sixty-six, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of the State of Maryland.

Passed
Feb. 27, 1850.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That Richard H. Adams, John K.
Skinner, Thomas Dyott, James B. Way, Leonidas
Dodson, James L. Jones, Alexander M. Seth, Robert
T. Benson, Alexander Harrison, James D. Mansfield,
C. H. Mansfield, and others, the officers and members
of the Bayside Lodge, number sixty-six, of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Mary-
land, and their successors, be and they are hereby de-
clared to be a community, corporation and body politic,
by the name and style and tide of the Bayside Lodge,
number sixty-six, of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows of the State of Maryland, and by that name
they, and their successors, shall and may at all times
hereafter be. capable in law to have, receive and retain
to them, and their successors, properly, real and perso-
nal, also devises and bequests of any persons, bodies
corporate or. politic, capable of making the same, and
the same at their pleasure to transfer or dispose of in
such manner as they may think proper; provided al-
ways, that the said corporation or body politic shall not
at any time hold or possess property, real personal or
mixed, exceeding in value the sum of fifteen thousand
dollars.

Incorporated,

&c.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corpora-
tion, and their successors, by the name and title afore-
said, shall be hereafter capable in law to sue and be
sued, to plead and be impleaded, answer and be an-
swered unto, defend and be defended, in all or any
courts of justice, and before all or any judges, officers
or persons whatsoever, in all and any singular actions
and matters whatsoever.

Corporate
powers.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may
be lawful for the said corporation to have a common
seal for their use, and the same, at their will and plea-
sure, to change, alter and make anew, from time to
time, as they may think best, and shall in general have
and exercise all such rights, privileges and immunities,
as by law are incident or necessary to corporations, and
may be necessary to the corporation herein constituted,
and to enable the members of said order in exercise all
things, concerning the designs of this corporation for the

Common seal.