LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1843

Clark Baton, Alexander F. Gaw, Richard T. Howell,
Richard Edwards, Thomas Stockdale, Beall Helms,
George W. Anderson, Oliver W. Wheeler, James T.
Ploughman, William H. Harrison, Thomas Radcliffe,
James Ware, jun'r. John Love, and all others who are or
may be hereafter admitted into the association, agreea-
bly to such rules or regulations as now or may be From
time to time be established for the government and
management of the same, and their successois and as-
signs, be, and they are hereby created a corporation and
body politic, by the name and style of the Howard Ly-
ceum, and by that name shall have perpetual succession
and shall be able and capable in law, to sue and be sued,
implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered in
any court of law or equity, and make and use a common
seal, and the same to change and alter at pleasure and to
ordain and establish such by-laws and regulations, not
contrary to law as shall be necessary or convenient for

chap. 249.

conducting the affairs of this corporation.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the corporation and
their successors by the aforesaid name shall be, and
are hereby made able and capable in law to have,
purfhase, rpceive 'and possess, enjoy and retain to them,
and their successors, lands, tenements, rents annuities-
pensions and other hereditaments in fee simple or for a
term of years, life or lives; or otherwise and also goods,
chattels and effects of what nature, kind or quality soever,
and the same to grant, demise, alien or dispose of, and
by the name aforesaid, to do and execute all other things

Corporate
powers.

touching the same, provided, that the total value of the
property of said corporation, real, personal or mixed,

Proriso.

shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That from and after the
passage of this act, the officers of the Howard Lyceum
shall consist of a president, vice-president, secretary, cor-
responding secretary, treasurer, librarian and an execu-
tive committee of three, who shall be elected by ballot on
the first Thursday in April next, and semi-annually there-
after, a majority of members present at the meeting being
necessary to constitute a choice; the association shall also
have power to appoint such other officers, as they may
deem necessary and expedient in such manner as they
may think proper.

Officers.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That until there shall be
under this act, an election of officers necessary to the
uses of this institution, those now acting, or who may be
hereafter appointed, to act under any existing regulations
of the association shall continue so to do according to the

Until an elec-
tion be neces-
sary, those ac-
ting to conti-
nue.