LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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keeping of the public land records of Frederick county.

DEC. SESS.

1813.

CHAPTER 143.

An act to incorporate a Charitable Society in the town
of Easton.
Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That Thomas J. Bullett, Tristrim
Thomas, John Goldsborough, James Earle, Nicholas
Valliant, Ennalls Martin, Lambert Reardon, Thomas
P. Smith, Samuel Groome, Robert Spencer, John Mere-
dith, George Smith, William Clark, David Nice, William
Barlon, James Wainwright, James Wilson, Junr. John M.
G. Emory, James Neal, Robert Moore, William Moore,
John L. Kerr, Peter Denny, William K. Austin, Joseph
Haskins and Thomas P. Bennett, be, and they are here-
by incorporated into a society, the chief object of which
shall be to raise a constant fund by donation from the
charitable, and from annual subscriptions, for the pur-
pose of relieving such of the citizens of the town of
Easton as may by sickness, or other unavoidable cir-
cumstances, be reduced to indigence and distress, and
for other laudable purposes.

Passed Jan.
29, 1814.

Society in-
corporated.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforenamed
persons and others that may hereafter become subscri-
bers and contributors to the said society, and may be ad-
mitted into the same agreeably to such rules and bye-
laws as the said society and their successors shall hereaf-
ter establish and ordain, are hereby declared to be one
community, corporation and body politic forever, by the
name of the "Charitable Society of Easton," and by the
same name, they and their successors shall and may
have perpetual succession; and shall and may at all times
hereafter be persons able and capable in law, to purchase,
take, have and enjoy, to them and their successors in fee,
or less estate or estates, any lands, tenements, rents, an-
nuities, chattels, bank stock, registered debt or debts,
public securities in this state by the gift, bargain, sale or
devise of any person or persons, bodies politic, or cor-
poration capable to make the same; and the same at their
pleasure to alien, sell, transfer or lease in such manner
as they may judge most conducive to the benevolent and

Succession.
Privileges.

charitable uses of said society; Provided nevertheless,
That the said corporation or body politic shall not at any
time hold or possess real, personal or mixed property, ex-
ceeding in total value, the sum of twenty thousand dol-
lars.

Proviso.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the members of
said corporation and their successors may meet together
on the first Monday of May and November eighteen
hundred and fourteen, and semi-annually thereafter, or
as soon after as may be, and then and there elect the
officers of said society, and form such rules, bye-laws

Election of
officers. Rules,

&c.