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shall be and are hereby made able and capable in law to have, pur-
chase, receive, hold, possess, enjoy and retain to them and their suc-
cessors in fee or less estate or estates, any lands, grounds, tenements
rents, annuities, chatties, United States stock, or other stock or stocks
within this state, whether the same be acquired by gift, purchase or
devise of or from any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate
capable to make the same, and the same property, real, personal or
mixed, to alien, sell transfer or lease in such manner as they may
judge most conducive to the benevolent uses of the said society:
Provided nevertheless, that the said corporation or body politic shall
not at any one time hold or possess property real, personal or mixed
exceeding in total value the sum of ten thousand dollars.

Dec. Ses. 1823

2. And be it enacted, That the members of the said corporation
and their successors may meet together on such days and times and
at such place or places in the city of Baltimore as the said society
may appoint, and may at such times and places elect officers of the
said society, form such rules and regulations, make such alterations
and amendments in and to their said constitution, and make such bye
laws as may be necessary for assuring and currying into effect the
benevolent purposes of said association, and the present act, Pro-
vided, such rules and regulations, alterations and amendments in and
to the said constitution and bye-laws, be not repugnant to the con-
stitution and laws of the United States, of the state of Maryland
and of the corporation of the city of Baltimore.

Powers.

3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said
corporation and their successors forever to have a common seal for
their use and the same at the 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 such,
rights, franchises, privileges and immunities as by law are incident
and necessary to corporations of this kind, and that the said corpo-
ration and their successors shall be forever hereafter able and capa-
ble in law to sue and be sued plead and be impleaded, answer and be
answered unto, defend and be defended in all or any courts of jus-
tice, and before all or any judges, officers or persons whatsoever in all
actions, demands, matters and things whatsoever.

Seal, legal
capacities.

CHAPTER 149.

An additional supplement to An act entitled, An act for the relief of John
Messier and David Rinehart, Trustees of James A. Farquhar of Frederick,
county, passed at November session, eighteen hundred and twelve.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all the
powers and authority vested in William P. Farquhar, and John A.
Farquhar by an act of assembly, passed on the fifteenth day of De-
cember eighteen hundred and fourteen, appointing them trustees of
James Farquhar; shall be, and are hereby vested in Abraham M.

Passed Feb.
19, 1824.

Trustee.

Farquhar of Bedford county Pennsylvania; Provided, the said Abra-
ham M. Farquhar shall file his bond in the orphans' court of Bed-
ford county Pennsylvania, with such security as shall be approval
by the judges thereof and that on the said Abraham M. Farquhar
producing and filing with the Judges of the orphans' court of Fre-
derick county an attested copy of his bond, that then and in such
case, it shall and may be lawful for the said William P. Farquhar
and John A. Farquhar to deliver and pay over to the said Abraham
M. Farquhar any money or property that may remain in their hands.

Proviso.