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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Sess.
1814.

said corporation herein erected, or may be admitted into
the said corporation agreeably to the constitution, roles
and bye-laws of the same and their successors, are hereby
declared to be one community, corporation and body po-
litic, forever, by the name, style and title of "The Bal-

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timore Beneficial Society ;" Provided nevertheless, That
the said corporation may be dissolved at any time by the
consent of its members as is hereinafter provided.

Affairs— by
whom to be
managed.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the affairs of the
said society shall be managed and conducted by a Pre-
sident, Vice President, Treasurer and acting committee
of seven members, to be chosen annually on the first
Monday in July in each and every succeeding year, in
such manner us the said society shall think proper to ap-
point.

Privileges.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the present mem-
bers of the said society, and their successors, by their
corporate name, shall and may have perpetual succes-
sion, and shall and may at all times hereafter be persons
able and capable in law to purchase, take, have and en-
joy, to them and their successors , in fee, or less estate or
estates, any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, chattels,
United States stock, Bank stock, registered debt, or
other public security within this; state, by the gift, pur-
chase or devise, of or from any person or persons, bodies
politic or corporate, 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

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charitable uses of the said society; Provided neverthe-
less, that the said corporation of body politic shall not at
any one time hold or possess property, real personal or
mixed, exceeding in total value, the sum of thirty thou-
sand dollars.

Annual electi-
on of officers—
rules & regula-
tions.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the members of
the said corporation, and their successors, may meet to-
gether on the first Monday of July, in the year of our
lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, at some con-
venient place in the city of Baltimore, or in the precincts
thereof, and on the same day annually forever thereafter,
and then and there elect the officers of the said society,
form such rules and regulations, and enact such bye-laws
as may be necessary for assuring and carrying into effect

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the benevolent purposes of this act; Provided, such rules,
regulations and bye laws be nor repugnant to the consti-
tution and laws of the United States, of the state of Ma-
ryland, or of the corporation of the city of Baltimore.

Former ap-
pointment of
officers made
valid.

5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all appointments
of officers for the said society, heretofore made by the
members thereof in their private capacities, shall respec-
tively continue and be in full force until the time specifi-
ed by this act for the first election of officers for the said
corporation.

Powers, &c.

6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said corpo-