ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

22$

by the president of said company, suit may be brought
against the president of the said company, by action
of debt for recovery thereof, by the person entitled to
receive the same.

1812.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the second
section of the act to which this is a supplement, be,
and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 196.

Second section
of the former
act repealed.

An act to incorporate the Charitable Society of the
city of Annapolis,

Passed, Jan, 7,
1812.

WHEREAS, Samuel Ridout, Alexander C. Ma-
gruder, Richard Harwood (of Thomas, ) Joseph Evans,
John Golder, Jeremiah Hughes, John Barber, George
Shaw, John Randall, Nicholas Brewer and others,
citizens of the city of Annapolis and its vicinity, hav-
ing formed themselves into a, society, the chief object
of which is to raise a constant fund by donation from
the charitable, and annual subscription, for the purpose
of relieving such of the citizens of Annapolis as may,
by sickness or other unavoidable circumstances, be
reduced to indigence and distress, and for other laud-
able purposes; they have prayed an act of incorpora-
tion; and the legislature thinking it right and proper
to encourage such benevolent institutions: — There-

fore

Preamble

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Samuel Ridout, Alexander C. Ma-
gruder, Richard Harwood (of Thomas, ) Joseph Evans,
John Golder, Jeremiah Hughes, John Barber, George
Shaw, Nicholas Brewer and John Randall, and
others that now are or may hereafter become sub-
scribers and contributors to the said society, and may
be admitted into the same agreeably to the rules and
by-laws thereof, and their successors, are hereby de-
clared to be one community, corporation and body
politic forever, by the name of " The Charitable Soci-
ety of the city of Annapolis, " and by the same name,
they and their successors shall and may have perpe-
tual succession; and shall and may at ail times hereaf-
ter be persons able and capable in law, to purchase,
take, have and enjoy to them and their successors in
fee, or less estate or estates, any lands, tenements,
rents, annuities, chattels, bank stock, registered debt
or debts, public securities in this state by the gift,
bargain, sale or devise of any person or persons, bo-
dies politic, or corporation capable to make the same;

Society incor-
porated— its
privileges.