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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec Ses. 1822

members of the said corporation herein erected, or may be admitted
into the said corporation, agreeably to the constitution, rules and by-
laws of the same, and their successors, are hereby declared to be one
community, corporation and body politic forever, by the name, style
and title, of the Jefferson Association of Baltimore; Provided never-
theless, that the said corporation may be dissolved at any time by the

Officers.

consent of its members, as is hereinafter provided,
2. And be it enacted, That, the affairs of the said society shall
be managed and conducted by a president, vice president, treasurer,
secretary, and seven stewards, to be chosen annually on the second
Thursday in November in each and every succeeding year, in such
manner as the said society shall think proper to appoint.

Powers.

3. And be it enacted, That the present members of the said
society and their successors, by their corporate name, shall and may
have perpetual succession, 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, chatties, United States stock, bank
stock, registered debt, or other public securities within this state, and
the same at pleasure to alien, sell, transfer, or lease in such manner
as they may judge most conducive to the charitable uses of the said
society; Provided nevertheless, that the said corporation or body po-
litic shall not at any one time, hold or possess property, real, personal
or mixed, exceeding in total value the sum of ten thousand dollars.

Annual meet
ings—elec-
tions, &c.

4. And be it enacted. That the members of the said corporation,
and their successors, may meet together on the second Thursday in
November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty
three, at some convenient 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 by-laws as may be necessary
for assuring and carrying into effect the benevolent purposes of this
act; Provided, such rules, regulations and by-laws be not repugnant
to the constitution and laws of the United States, of the state of
Maryland, or of the corporation of the city of Baltimore.

Present of-
ficers.

5. And be it enacted, That all appointment of officers for the
said society, heretofore made by the members thereof in their pri-
vate capacities, shall respectively continue, and be in full force until
the time specified by this act for the first election of officers for the
said corporation.

Capable in
law.

G. And be it enacted, That the said corporation and their successors
by the name aforesaid, shall be forever 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 courts of jus-
tice, and before all or any judges, officers, or persons whatsoever, in
all and singular actions, matters, and demands whatsoever, and that
all legal process that may be hereafter instituted by the said corpo-
ration, shall be in the name of the president and stewards of the Jef-
ferson association of Baltimore, and that all process that may be
hereafter instituted against the said society, shall be served on the
president on behalf of the same.

. Privileges
granted.

7. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said
corporation and their successors forever hereafter, to have a com-
mon seal for their use, and the same at the will and pleasure of them
and their successors, to change, alter, break, and make anew, from
time to time as they shall think best, & shall in general have & exercise