T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 222.

AN ACT to incorporate the trustees of Hampden
Hall, a literary institution in Baltimore county.

Passed Mar.
10, 1856.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John N. McJilton, Isaiah Mar-
tin, David Stewart, Samuel Wyman, Henry Mar-
tin, members of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
Maryland, be and they are hereby constituted a body
politic and corporate, by the name of the Trustees
of Hampden Hall, and by that name shall have per-
petual succession, and may sue be sued, i in plead
and be impleaded, and may purchase and hold prop-
erty, whether acquired by purchase, or gift, or de-

Incorporated.

vise, and whether real, personal or mixed; Provided,
however, that the said corporation shall not at any
one time hold property altogether exceeding one hun-
dred thousand dollars in amount or value; and they
may make and have a corporate seal, and the same
break and alter at pleasure, and shall have all other
rights belonging to similar corporations by the laws
of this State.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the object of said
corporation is hereby declared to be the promotion of
the Christian and liberal education of females.

Object of in-
corporation.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the entire man-
agement of the affairs and concerns of the said cor-
poration, and all the corporate powers hereby grant-
ed, shall be and are hereby vested in a board of not
more than fifteen trustees, resident in this State;
and the persons named in the first section of this act
shall be the first trustees, with power to increase the
number at their pleasure, not exceeding fifteen in all,
under such by-laws as they may enact.

Management.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the majority of
the trustees shall have power, from time to time, to
enact by-laws for the management of the affairs of
the said corporation, for increasing the number, and
for filling up vacancies in the board, and for carrying
out the objects of this corporation.

Trustees to
have power.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That for the purpose
of carrying out the objects declared in the second
section of this act, or for any purpose connected
therewith, the said corporation shall have power, from
time to time, to purchase, take and hold real and per-
sonal estate, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, and

May hold real
estate.