1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 520.

CHAPTER 519.

Passed Mar. 7,
1850.

An act to divorce James Girvin, of Cecil County,
from his wife, Ann Girvin.

Divorced.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That James Girvin, of Cecil county, be and he is
hereby divorced a vinculo matrimonii, from his wife,
Ann Girvin.

CHAPTER 520.

Passed Mar. 7,
1850.

An act to incorporate the United States Traveller's
Protection Insurance Company.

Incorporated,
&c.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Isaac Munroe, E. M. Greenway,
junior, Thomas Harris, George W. Cox, J. M. Chubb,
J. F. McJilton, Neilson Poe, and others, their asso-
ciates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby
created a corporation, by the name of the United
States Traveller's Protection Insurance Company, and
by that name shall have succession, may sue and he
sued, in any court of law or equity, have a common
seal, and at pleasure alter the same, may purchase,
hold, improve and convey any estate, personal or
mixed, and generally may do every other act or thing,
necessary to carry into effect this art, or to promote
the object and design of this incorporation.

Corporate
powers.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said company shall
have power and authority, by instrument under seal
or otherwise, to receive endowments of personal or
mixed property, for a term of years in trust, in grant
annuities, to make insurance on lives, and all and
every insurance appertaining to life, to make insurance
against all the casualties to which life or body is ex-
posed by the travelling upon any rail road, steamboat,
or other conveyance, to contract for reversionary pay-
ments, to make ah kinds of contracts in which the
casualties of life or the interest of money are involved,
to make insurance against loss or damage by fire,
flood, or other casuality on goods, wares, merchandise
and property of every description whatever, in store
or transit, to provide for the investment of the funds
of the corporation, to determine and make dividends