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sident hereinafter named, are hereby declared to be a body cor-
porate and politic, by the name, style and title, of The President
and Visitors of the Maryland Hospital, and they, and their suc-
cessors, by the same name, are hereby made, created, erected,
constituted, and declared in fact and name, one body politic and
corporate for ever, and shall by the same name have perpetual
succession, and shall and may by the same name be persons in
the law to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and
be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all courts, and else-
where, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, pleas, causes,
matters and demands whatsoever, as fully and amply as any ci-
tizen of this state may or can be sued, implead or be implead-
ed, defend or be defended, by any lawful ways or means what-
soever.
2. And be it enacted, That all that lot, piece, or parcel of
ground, heretofore, on the eighteenth day of May, seventeen hun-
dred and ninety-eight, conveyed by Jeremiah Yellott to the
mayor and city council of Baltimore, together with all the build-
ings, improvements, and appurtenances thereon and thereto be-
longing, be and they are hereby vested in the said president and
visitors of the Maryland hospital, and their successors for ever,
for and as a common state hospital; and that the said
president and visitors of the Maryland hospital shall for over
hereafter bo persons capable and able in law to purchase, take,
hold, receive and enjoy, to them and their successors, any mes-
suages, tenements, houses, and real estate whatsoever, and all
other hereditaments of whatsoever nature, kind and quality they
be, in fee-simple, for term of life or lives, or in any other manner
howsoever, and also any goods, chattel, and personal estate what-
soever; and that they, and their successors, shall have full power
and authority, by the same name, to give, grant, sell, lease, de-
mise, and dispose of, the same real estate, and hereditaments what-
soever, for life or lives, or years, or for ever, and also all goods,
chattels, and personal estate whatsoever, at their will and plea-
sure, as they shall judge to be most beneficial and advantageous
to the good and charitable ends and purposes of this act; and
that it shall and may be lawful for them, and their successors,
for ever hereafter, to have a common seal, to serve for the causes
and business of them, and their successors, and the same seal to
change, alter, break, and make new, from time to time, at their
will and pleasure.
3. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid Henry Parson, James
Hindman, John Hillen, William Lorman, James Mosher, Wil-
liam M'Donald, David Winchester, George Warner, William
Ross, James Wilson, Daniel Howland, and James Carnighan,
or a majority of them, shall be and they are hereby authorised,
empowered and required, to assemble at any place in the city
of Baltimore by them agreed upon, on the first Monday in June
next, and elect from their own body, or from the citizens of Ma-
ryland at large, by ballot, a person to act as president of the vi-
sitors aforesaid, and in the same manner some person to act as
vice-president, which said president, vice-president and visitors,
shall have the sole absolute controul and government of said hos-
pital, in manner as hereafter is declared and appointed, and shall
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Dec. Ses. 1816.
Lot vested in
president and
visitors.
President and
visitors to be
elected.
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