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CHAPTER 80.
An act to incorporate the Hager's-Town Female Society for
the instruction of Poor Children.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Miss Susan Hughes, Mrs. Mary Ann M'Merrick, Miss Isabella Neill,
Miss Elizabeth Harry, Miss June Millegan, Miss Mary Grieves,
Miss Susan Bell, Miss Mary Douglass, and Miss Sophia Pottinger,
together with all the subscribers, and such persons as may become
subscribers in said society, be and they are hereby erected and de-
clared a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of The
Hager's-Town Female, Society for the instruction of Poor Children,
and by that name and style shall, during the continuance of this
act, have succession, and be able, to sue and be sued, implead and
be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, and to ordain and es-
tablish such by-laws, rules and regulations, as shall appear necessa-
ry for conducting the concerns of said society, and shall have pow-
er to grant, receive, and do all other acts an natural persons, and
may at all times hereafter be persons 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, annuities, chattels,
bank stock, registered debt or debts, public securities in this state,
by the gilt, bargain, sale or devise, of any person or persons, bo-
dies politic or corporation, capable to make the. same, :\ud the same
at their pleasure to alien, sell, transfer or lease, in such manner
as they may judge best calculated to promote the object of said so-
ciety; Provided nevertheless, that, the said corporation or body poli-
tic shall not at any time hold or possess real, personal, or mixed
property, exceeding in total value the sum often thousand dollars.
2. And be it enacted, That the Rev. Jehu C. Clay. Alexander
Neill, and John Kennedy, be and they are hereby appointed trus-
tees of said institution or society, whose duty it shall be to inspect
the books, accounts and proceedings of said society, and correct
the errors that may be committed, (if any.) and in case of the
death or resignation of any or either of the trustees, the vacancy or
vacancies thereby occasioned, shall be filled by the managers of the
society for the time being.
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CHAP. 80.
Passed Jan. 29 1819
Subscribers incor-
porated.
Proviso.
Trustees appoint-
ed.
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CHAPTER 81.
An act authorising Sarah Bowen, Administratrix de bonis non,
of Benjamin Y. Bowen, to complete the Collections of the
said Benjamin Y. Bowen.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said Sarah Bowen be and she is hereby authorised and
empowered, to collect, until the first day of January eighteen hun-
dred and twenty, all balances due the said Benjamin Y. Bowen as
collector of the county taxes for eighteen hundred and thirteen and
eighteen hundred and fourteen, in the same manner as he could or
might have done within the time limited by law, any law to the
contrary notwithstanding.
2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said Sarah
Bowen, before she proceeds to execute or distrain the property of
any person or persons for public, dues by virtue of this act, to de-
liver to such person or persons chargeable with the same, at least
thirty days previous to levying such execution or distress, an ac-
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Passed Jan 29, 1819
Time extended
for collecting ba-
lances due.
Before executing
property to deli-
ver account, &c.
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