1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 149.

rate, by the name, style and title of The Trustees of the High
German Lutheran Church in Reister's-town, Baltimore county,
and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and shall
be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in any court
of law or equity in this state or elsewhere, and to make and have
a common seal, and the same to break, alter or renew, at their
pleasure, and also to ordain and establish such by-laws and ordi-
nances as shall appear necessary for regulating the temporal con-
cerns of the said church, and fur promoting literature within the
same, not being repugnant to this act, or the laws of this state.

Lands, &c. vested
in body corpo-
rate.

2. And be it enacted, That all the lands and tenements, with
their appurtenances, now vested in trustees for the use of the said
church, and all other property of the said church, shall be and
are hereby absolutely and unconditionally vested in the said body
corporate, and their successors, for ever: and the said corpora-
lion shall be, and they are hereby declared to be capable of bar-
gaining and selling, leasing and conveying, any part of the said
property, or any other properly which may hereafter be acquired
by the said corporation, in as full and effectual a manner as any
person or body corporate may or can do.

All acts of corpo-
ration to be sign-
ed by the trustees.

3. And be it enacted, That all acts or deeds of the said corpo-
ration shall be signed by the trustees, in behalf of the corporation,
and scaled with their corporate seal: and all deeds by them for
the conveyance of any lands and tenements of the corporation,
which by the law of the land ought to ho acknowledged and re-
corded, shall be signed and sealed as aforesaid, and shall also be
acknowledged in due form by the trustees, as such, in behalf of
the corporation; and all acts or deeds of the said body corporate,
so authenticated, shall be valid and effectual in law.

Corporation may
purchase proper-
ty.

4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall be capable
of purchasing hereafter real and personal property, not exceed-
ing in value the sum of five thousand dollars.

Passed Jan 3, 1821.

Preamble.

CHAP. CI.

A Supplement to an Act, entitled, An act to prevent the issuing of Small Bank
Notes.
WHEREAS by the act to which this is a supplement, the several
banks then or thereafter incorporated, or whose charters should
be renewed or extended, within this state, are prohibited from
issuing bank notes of a less denomination than five dollars, or of
any intermediate denomination between five and ten, which pro-
hibition has been in sundry instances violated, to the great incon-
venience and loss of the community; Therefore,

Banks not to pay
out notes of a less
denomination
than five dollars.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the commencement of this act, it, shall not be law-
ful for any bank, or other corporation within this state, to issue
or pay out any note or bill, or any paper purporting to be the
note or bill of such bank, or of any other bank, corporation or
company whatever, of a less denomination than five dollars, or of
any intermediate denomination between five dollars and ten dollars.

Penalty on offi-
cers of banks for
paying out any
such.

2. And be it enacted, That if any officer or servant of any
bank or corporation in this state, should as such issue or deliver
in payment any note or bill of such bank, or the note or bill of
any other bank, corporation or company, or any paper purporting