PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

are hereby declared to be capable of bargaining and
selling, leasing and conveying, any part of the said
property, or any other property which may hereafter
be acquired by the said corporation, in as full and ef-
fectual a manner as any person or body corporate may
or can do.

CHAP. 440.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts or deeds
of the said corporation, shall be signed by the trus-
tees, in behalf of the corporation, and sealed with
their corporate seal, and all deeds by them, for the
conveyance of any lands and tenements of the cor-
poration, which, by the laws of the land, ought to be
acknowledged and recorded, shall be signed and
sealed as aforesaid, and shall also be acknowledged
in due forms by the trustees, as such, in behalf of the
corporation, and all acts and deeds of the said body
corporate, so authenticated, shall be valid and effec-
tual in law.

Trustees to
sign all deeds.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said corpora-
tion shall, and they are hereby authorised hereafter to
hold, by gift, devise, bequest or purchase, any real,
personal or mixed property; provided, the same does
not exceed, in value, the sum of five thousand dol-
lars.

May hold prop-
erty.

Proviso.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
be construed so as to authorise the said corporation to
issue any note, token, device, scrip, or other evidence
of debt to be used as a currency.

CHAPTER 440.

Banking forbid.

An act to divorce Maybell Shaeffer, of Washington
county, from her husband, Joseph Shaeffer.

Passed Mar, 9,
1850.

Belt enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Maybell Shaeffer, of Washington county, be and
she is hereby divorced from her husband, Joseph
Shaeffer, a vinculo matrimonii.

Divorced.