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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, a number of ladies, in the city of Balti-
more, attached to the Protestant Episcopal church of
Saint Peter, there, have associated themselves for the es-
tablishment and support of an institution, to be devoted
to the maintenance and education of destitute female
children, and for the promotion of their purpose, have
asked that a charter be granted them.
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Incorporated,
&c.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Mrs. Keyser, Mrs. Keirle, Mrs.
Levering, Mrs. Long, and all others, the ladies now con-
tributing, or hereafter to become contributors to the
Saint Peter's Asylum for female children, be and they
are hereby constituted and created a body politic and
corporate by that name, and by the same name shall be
and they are hereby empowered to have and to use a
common seal, to implead and be impleaded, to receive
from any parent, guardian, orphans court, or other per-
son or authority in charge, any destitute female child or
children for the support and education, menial and reli-
gious, of such children, until they shall reach the age of
eighteen years, or for a shorter period, as they shall in
each case determine, to bind out any child so received
when they shall judge it necessary, but so, however,
that they shall be free at the age of eighteen years, to
take by gift, grant, devise, bequest, or otherwise lands,
tenements, hereditaments, monies, goods and chattels,
and to convey the same, including herein the power to
receive from the trustees of Saint, Peter's school, incor-
porated by an act of the General Assembly of this State,
passed at November session, Anno Domini eighteen
hundred and five, any monies or property which said
trustees may judge it conducive to the benevolent and
charitable uses of their society so to give, and generally
to have and to exercise all other corporate powers, which
may be necessary or proper to effectuate the end of the
creation of said body politic.
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Affairs — how
managed.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the internal gov-
ernment and direction of the body politic hereby created,
shall be vested in a board of managers, to consist of
twelve ladies, either married or unmarried, being an-
nual contributors of five dollars or more, to be annually
elected on Easter Monday, by the female annual con
tributors to the asylum, of the amount of one dollar or
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