LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1849.

Mortimer, W. Cave, Jos. Wellslager, T. J. Warrington, A.
Cline, Jas. Young, J. Hitchock, C. Alterhoff, F. Hopkins,
D. McCleester, J. Hopkins, W. H. Hooper, Edw'd. Thomp-
son, J. German, H. Hand and Thomas Watts and others,
the officers and members of the Powhattan Tribe, number
five, of the Order of Independent Red Men of the State
Maryland, and their successors, be and they are hereby
declared to be, a community, corporation and body politic,
by name, style and title of the Powhattan Tribe, number
five, of the Independent Order of Red Men of the State of
Maryland, and by that name, they and their successors
shall, and may at all times hereafter be capable in law to
have, receive and retain, to them and their successors, pro-
perty real and personal, and also devises or bequests of any
person or persons, bodies corporate or politic, capable of
making the same, and the same at their pleasure, to trans-
fer or dispose of in such manner as they may think proper;
provided always, that the said corporation or body politic,
shall not at any time hold or possess property, real and per-
sonal or mixed, exceeding in annual value the sum of five

CHAP. 251.

thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
and their successors by the name and title aforesaid, shall
be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be de-
fended in all or any courts of law and equity, and before
all or any judges, officers or persons whatsoever, in all and

Corporate
powers.

singular actions, matters or demands whatsoever.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful for the said corporation to have a common seal for
their use, and the same at their will and pleasure to change,
alter or make anew from time to time, as they may think
best, and shall in general have and exercise, all such rights,
privileges and immunities as by law are incident or necessary
to corporations, and whatmay be necessary to the corporation
herein constituted, and to enable the members of said order
to exercise all things concerning the design of this cor-
poration for the benevolent releif of the sick and distressed
and for the promotion of their purposes generally.

Common seal.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be law-
ful at any time, for the General Assembly, to demand a
statement of the amount of property, real and personal, be-
longing to the said corporation, and of the debts due to and
from the said corporation, and the purposes for which dis-
bursments shall have been made, and shall also have the
right to authorise one or more persons, to inspect such
general accounts in the books of the corporation, as shall
relate to such statements.
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Legislature
may demand a
statement.