SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1820.

and capable in law to SUP and be sued, plead and be impleaded, an-
nswer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all or any
courts of justice, and before all or any judges, officers or persons
whatsoever, in all and singular actions, matters and demands
whatsoever, and that all legal process that may be hereafter in-
stituted by the said corporation, shall be in the name of The Pre-
sident and Stewards of the Equitable Beneficial Society of Ma-
ryland, and that all process that, may be hereafter instituted against
the said society, shall be served on the president on behalf of the
same.

CHAP. 40.

7. And be it enacted. That it shall and may be lawful for the
said corporation, and their successors, forever hereafter, to
have a common seal for their use, and the same at their will, and
pleasure of them and their successors, to change, alter, break and
make anew, from time to time, as they shall think best, and shall
in general have and exercise all such rights, franchises, privileges
and immunities, as by law are incident and necessary to corpora-
tions of this kind, and which may he necessary to the corporation
herein and hereby constituted and erected, to enable them duly
and fully in the law to execute all tilings touching and concerning
the design and intent, of their said corporation, for the benevolent
succour, relief, and good order of its members, and the widows
of deceased members of the said society, agreeably to the consti-
tution and such rules and by-laws as may be established by the
said society.

To have a com-
mon seal, &c.

8. And be it enacted, That no member of the said society shall,
in his individual capacity, be answerable for any losses, deficien-
cies, or failures of the joint fund of the said society, for any more
or larger sum or sums of money whatever than the current
amount by him payable into the common fund of the society.

No member to be
answerable in his
individual capaci-

ty.

9. And be it enacted, That if at any time it may be thought ne-
cessary to dissolve this society, a proposition to that effect shall
be laid on the table in writing, at a stated meeting of the society,
and may be discussed at the next stated or special meeting, but
shall not he finally derided on until it Ins been two full months
before the society, and shall not take effect unless three fourths
of the members residing in the city of Baltimore are in favour
thereof.

Proceedings as to
dissolution of so-

ciety.

10. And be it enacted. That this act shall be and remain in

force until the first day of January eighteen hundred and fifty,
and until the, end of the next session of the general assembly
which shall happen thereafter.

Duration.

CHAP. XLI.

An Act for the Relief of Peter Ulrick of the City of Baltimore.

WHEREAS it is alleged to this general assembly by the petition
of Peter Ulrick. of the city of Baltimore, that he is at present
confined in the Baltimore county gaol for debts which he alleges,
himself unable to pay; that he has made application for the bene-
fit of the insolvent law, which has heretofore been refused to him
on account of some doubts as to the fact of his residence in the
state of Maryland for two years previous to his application, he
having left the state of Maryland for five months within the last
two years, for the purpose of establishing Lancastrian schools in

Passed Jan. 25, 1851.
Preamble.