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Session Laws, 1830
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DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 188.
An Act to authorise the Commissioners of Baltimore
County to levy and assess a sum of money for the
purposes therein mentioned.

1830.
CHAP. 189.
Passed Feb 26

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the commissioners of Baltimore county be and they
are hereby authorised, to adjust and pay any balance, either
for principal or interest, if in their opinion they be just and
proper, which may he due on the contract of Lewis Wern-
way and Joseph Shannon, for building a bridge over the
Great Falls of Gunpowder, and to assess and levy upon any
assemble property in said county, a sum sufficient to pay
such balance.

Commission-
ers authorised
to adjust ba-
lance.

CHAPTER 189.

 
 

An Act to incorporate the American Colonization So-
ciety.

Passed Feb 24

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the beneficial objects of the American Colonization
Society will be promoted by the passage of an ao' incor-
porating the said society; Therefore,

Preamble.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assesmbly of
Maryland, That Charles Carroll of Carrollton, John C.
Herbert, Francis S. Key, Nathaniel Williams, Nicholas
Brice, Isaac M'Kim, John H. B. Latrobe, Daniel Murray,
Charles C. Harper, George Hoffman, Alexander Randall,
Franklin Anderson, of the said American Colonization So-
ciety, and their successors, to be elected and qualified as
the present or future by-laws, ordinance or regulations, of
the said society do, or shall hereafter prescribe, shall be, and
they are hereby created and declared to be, a body politic
and corporate, by the name, style and title, of The Ameri-
can Colonization Society, and by that name shall have per-
petual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, to
plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity in
this state, or to purchase, have and enjoy, to them and
their successors, in fee or otherwise, any law, tenements
er hereditaments, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, devise,
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Incorporation
powers.

 

 
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