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Passed Feb 16
Preamble
Incorporated--
style.
Privileges of
company.
Officers ap-
pointed to re-
ceive subscrip-
tions.
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CHAPTER 211.
An act incorporating the Baltimore Second Dispensary.
Whereas, a number of the humane inhabitants of the city of
Baltimore have formed a charitable institution in said city, east of
Harford Run, under the name of Baltimore Second Dispensa-
ry, and have petitioned this general assembly for an act incorpo-
rating a board of directors, to enable them more effectually to ac-
complish the objects of said dispensary, Therefore,
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Philip Moore, Hezekiah Walters, James Beit, Dr. William H.
Clendenin, William Mondal, Dr. Alexander Clendenin, John Sni-
der and Jacob W. Giles, and their successors who shall be elected
from time to time, be, and they are hereby declared to be, one
community, corporation and body politic, for ever, by the name of
The Board of Directors of the Baltimore Second Dispensary, and
by the same name they shall 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, any lands, tenements, rents, annui-
ties, chattels, bank stock, registered debt or debts, public securi-
ties, by the gift, bargain, sale or devise, of any person or persons,
bodies politic or corporate, capable to make the same, and the same
to alien, sell, transfer or lease, in such manner as they may judge
most conducive to the benefit of said dispensary, provided that
the whole amount of property, real, personal or mixed, which the
said body politic or corporate shall at any time hold or possess,
shall not exceed in total value the sum of thirty thousand dollars.
2. And be it enacted, That the corporation and their successors
by the name aforesaid, shall be for ever hereafter able and capable
in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be
answered unto, defend and be defended, in all or any court of jus-
tice, and before all or any judges, officers, or persons whatsoever,
in all and singular actions, matters or demands whatsoever, and
that it shall and may be lawful for them to have and keep a com-
mon seal for their use, and the same at the will and pleasure of
them, and their successors, to change, alter and make, from time to
time, as they shall think best, and shall in general have and exer-
cise all rights and franchises, privileges and immunities, as by law
are incident or necessary to such corporations, and what may be
necessary to the corporation herein constituted, to enable them
fully to execute all things concerning the design and intent of the
said corporation, and to make such by-laws and regulations as they
may find necessary for the government of said institutions, provided
the same be not contrary to the laws of this state and of the Unit-
ed States.
3. And be it enacted, That the said board of directors shall ap-
point such officers as in their discretion they may think advisable,
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