LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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ever hereafter able and capable in law to sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, de-

fend and be defended, in any courts of record, or any o-
ther place whatsoever, and also to make, have and use a
common seal, and the same to break alter and renew at
pleasure, and also to assemble and meet at such times and
places as they may agree upon, and publicly notify and
by a majority of the voices of those attending to ordain, es-
tablish and put in execution, such by-laws, ordinances and
regulations, as to them snail seem necessary and conve-
nient tor the government of the company, the same not
being contrary to the laws of the state, or the United
States, and generally to do, and execute all such acts,
matters and things as to them shall or may appertain to

do.

DEC. SESS.
1814.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That until there shall be
under this act, an election of officers necessary to the ends
of the institution, those now acting or who may be hereaf-
ter appointed to act under any existing regulations of the
company, shall continue so to do, according to the pro-
visions heretofore made, and such regulations shall, till
lawfully altered, be deemed as valid and obligatory as if
made since the passage of this act.

Present offi-
cers to act.

CHAPTER 103.
An act relating to British, confiscated property within this
mate.
SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That all the powers and authority vested
in the governor and council by the law, entitled "an act
respecting the debts due to this state, and the debtors
thereof, and for other purposes" passed in the year
eighteen hundred and two, and also by the supplement to
that act passed in the year eighteen hundred and three, in
relation to British property confiscated, or liable to con-
fiscation, shall be hereafter possessed and exercised by
them over any such property which may be discovered
to them, and that six months from the time of any such
discovery be allowed to compound for such property,
and upon payment being made for any such property sold
by the governor and council, proceeds shall be made by the
chancellor, as provided by the act aforesaid.

Passed Jan.

1815.

Compounds—
needs.

CHAPTER 104.

An act relating to Apprentices.
SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the inspector of the penitentiary
of this state or any three of them, shall have power to
bind as apprentices, the free male convicts whose times
of labour in that institution, shall expire before they are of
age, and they are further empowered in their discretion
to bind its an apprentice until the age of sixteen years,
any free female convict whose term of service shall be

Passed Jan.

30, 1815.
Inspectors of
the penitenti-
ary may bind.