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WHEREAS, an association of citizens has for several
years existed in the City of Baltimore, under the title
of the Board of Trade of the City of Baltimore, having
for its object the encouragement and advancement of
the interests of commerce and manufactures in said
city; and whereas, said association has applied for an
act of incorporation, in order that thereby its continued
existence may be rendered more secure, and that it may
be enabled to carry out with greater efficiency the im-
portant and laudable objects for which it was formed,
Therefore,
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Preamble.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the president of said association,
John C. Brune; the Vice Presidents, William McKim,
Herman H. Perry, Henry Tiffany and Nathan Rogers;
the Treasurer, Edward B. Dallam; the Secretary,
George W. Porter, and the directors, Thomas C. Jen-
kins, William P. Lemmon, Joseph C. Wilson, Patrick
H. Sullivan, James George, Enoch Pratt, Daniel War-
field, Gustav W. Lurman, William G. Harrison, Wil-
liam R. Travers, Albert Schumacher, Alexander Rie-
man, David S. Wilson, Josiah Lee, Thomas Wilson,
William Bose, Benjamin C. Buck, Chauncey Brooks,
Thomas W. Levering, George B. Hoffman, John J.
Abrahams, Hugh Jenkins, Enoch S. Courtney and
George K. Walter, and such other persons as now are
members of said association, and their successors, be,
and they are hereby created a corporation by the name
of the Board of Trade of the City of Baltimore, and by
that name may sue and be sued, answer and defend in
any court of law or equity, and may ordain and establish
by-laws, rules and regulations, as shall appear neces-
sary or proper for conducting the concerns of said corpo-
ration, and shall not be contrary to law, and the same
may change, alter and amend as shall appear proper,
and may have, use and at pleasure change a common
seal, generally may do any act or thing necessary or
proper to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and
to promote the design of the corporation.
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Incorporated,
&c.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
shall have the power of receiving subscriptions, dona-
tions, devises and bequests of money, or real or perso-
nal property, in trust or otherwise, and of purchasing
or otherwise acquiring and holding such property, to be
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Subscrip-
tions.
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