1852.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 231.

and the same to exhibit and present to the judge of the
Circuit court for the county, or the judge of the Supe-
rior court of Baltimore city, as the case may be, in
which said corporation is intended to be situated, or its
principal business transacted; and the said instrument

of writing shall be acknowledged before, and certified
by said judge in the same manner as conveyances of
real estate are by the laws of this State required to be,
and the said judge shall further direct said instrument

of writing to be recorded in the office for the recording

of deeds in said county or city, and the same shall be
recorded in a book to be provided for these special
purposes; and on said instrument being so record-
ed, the persons so associated, or meaning to asso-
ciate, shall, according to the objects, articles, con-
ditions and provisions in said instrument set forth
and contained, become and be a corporation or body
politic, in law and in fact, by the name, style and title
set forth in said instrument, and by that name shall
have succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded, answer and defend, and shall have
power to make, have and use a common seal, and the
same to break, alter and renew at pleasure, and to make
and establish, from time to time, all proper by-laws and
regulations for the government of the said corporation

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and the management of its affairs; Provided, said by-
laws and regulations, or any of them, be not repugnant
to the constitution and laws of the United States, to the
constitution and laws of this State, or to the instru-
ment on which the said corporation is formed or estab-
lished; And provided further, that the name of every
corporation formed under this act, shall include within
it, the name of the county or city in which it may be
formed as aforesaid, and shall differ in a sufficient de-
gree to be clearly distinguishable from the name of any
previously formed and then existing corporation in the
same county or city.

May hold pro-
perty.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every corporation
established by virtue of this act, shall be able and capa-
ble in law, according to the terms and conditions of the
instrument upon which it may be formed as aforesaid,,
to take, receive and hold any kind of property, leal,
personal and mixed, and the same to employ, use and
dispose of, according to the articles, objects and con-
ditions of its charier, or according to its articles
and by-laws, or in case of a devise or bequest, accord-
ing to the will and intention of the donor, if the same
be lawful and within the proper objects and powers of

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the said corporation; Provided, however, that no cor-
poration formed under this act, shall, in any manner or