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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR:

Dec. Ses. 1824

same at their discretion, to call meetings of the stockholders as of-
ten as they see fit, to whom they shall make report from time to
time of the state of their affairs, to declare dividends of the profits
or any portion of the profits thereof at their discretion; and gene-
rally to exercise all the powers and privileges conferred on or ap-
pertaining to this corporation; Provided, the same be not incom-
patible with ordinances, passed at general meetings of the stock-
holders as aforesaid.

Answerable
for contracts.

5. And be it enacted, That all the property, estate and joint stock
of the said corporation, shall be bound and answerable for any con-
tracts or engagements made, or liability incurred by them, or by
the directors thereof, or through their agency, or by their authori-
ty: and the serving of any writ or judicial process by an officer duly
authorised, upon any director, shall be a good service upon the
corporation.

Passed Jan.
6, 1825.
Divorce.

Claim forfeit-
ed.

CHAPTER 8.

An act to divorce William L. Stewart and Elizabeth his wife.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said William L. Stewart, be, and he is hereby divorced
from bed, board and mutual cohabitation with his wife Elizabeth
Stewart.
2. And be it enacted, That the said Elizabeth Stewart, shall not
by virtue of her marriage with the said William L.Stewart, be au-
thorized to have or claim, any right or interest in the estate, real,
personal or mixed, of the said William L. Stewart, to be by him
acquired after the passage of this act.

Passed Jan.
7, 1825.

CHAPTER 9.
A supplement to the act, entitled, An act, declaring the assent of the Legisla-
ture, to the devise of Lands in the Will of John Postly, late of Worcester
County, deceased, to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States of America.

Trustees au-
thorised to sell
&c.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the trustees of the general assembly of the Presbyterian
church in the United States of America, be, and they are hereby
authorized to sell the lands devised to them by John Postly, late of
Worcester county, deceased, as mentioned in the act to which this
is a supplement, if they shall be of opinion that the benevolent ob-
ject of the testator, will be more fully answered thereby, and the
purchaser or purchasers of the whole or any part of the said lands
at such sale, shall, upon the payment of the purchase money, be
deemed and considered to be seized of the same estate in fee sim-
ple in the whole or any part of said lands, as the case may be, as
the said trustees are now deemed to be seized.

Deed.

2. And be it enacted, That any deed or deeds made by the said
general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States
of America, or by the said trustees under the corporate seal of the
said general assembly, or of the said trustees for the conveyance
and alienation of said lands or any part thereof, may be acknow-
ledged before the person or persons authorized by law to take the
acknowledgment of similar deeds made by individuals, by attor-
ney constituted and authorized by a clause in such deed, or by let-
ter of attorney, under the corporate seal of the said general assem-
bly of the said Presbyterian church, or of the trustees thereof, and