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1800. November.                                        LAWS of MARYLAND.
CHAP.
  LVI.





Jury to make a
return, &c.




Sums imposed
to be a lien,
&c.


Persons to have
certain rights,
&c.
and upon all and every other person or persons holding houses or lots on South-street, who in
their judgment and conscience will or may derive any particular benefit by the opening of said Second-street,
and the said jury are hereby authorised and directed to ascertain and determine the sum
of money which each and every such person shall pay, and to whom the same shall be paid.

    III.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That the jury aforesaid shall make a return of their proceedings had
in virtue of this act, under their hands and seals, into the register's office of the city of Baltimore,
and the same, or a copy thereof duly attested under the hand of the said register and the corporate
seal of the city, shall be received as evidence in any court of law or equity.

    IV.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sum or sums of money imposed and assessed in virtue of this
act shall be a lien upon and bind the property of such person or persons which shall by the jury aforesaid
be deemed and declared to be benefitted by the opening of said Second-street.

    V.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That every person or persons whose property the jury under the act to
which this is a supplement have declared will sustain an injury by the opening of Second-street,
shall have respectively all the rights, remedies and means of recovery, in relation to the person or
persons upon whom the price of such injury shall be imposed and assessed in virtue of this act, and
be subjected to all the inconveniencies and obligations to which they were respectively entitled and
subjected in virtue of the act to which this is a supplement.

CHAP. LVII.
Passed 19th of 
Dec. 1800.


Preamble.




Persons incorporated,
&c.














Corporation,
of whom to consist,
&c.
An ACT for incorporating the methodist episcopal churches, known
    by the name of the Light-street and Old-town Methodist Churches,
    in the City of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland.

WHEREAS application hath been made to this general assembly for an act of incorporation, in
behalf of the congregations of the methodist episcopal churches of the city of Baltimore,
which may enable them to manage with convenience their temporal concerns;

    II.  BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That James McCannon, William Hawkins,
Isaac Burneston, Samuel Owings, John Hagerty, Job Smith, Philip Rogers, Walter Simpson
and Caleb Hewitt, and their successors, to be elected as herein after mentioned, with their minister
for the time being, shall be, and hereby are created and declared to be, a body politic and corporate,
by the name, style and title, of The Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Churches of the City of
Baltimore, and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued,
implead and by impleaded, in any court of law or equity in this state or elsewhere, and to make and
have a common seal, and the same to break, alter or renew, at their pleasure, and also to ordain
and establish such by-laws and ordinances as shall appear necessary for regulating the temporal concerns
of the said church, and for promoting literature within the same, not being repugnant to this
act or the laws of this state.

    III.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said corporation shall, at all times hereafter, consist of the
minister of the said congregations, and nine other trustees, duly qualified, chosen and appointed, as
is herein after mentioned, described and directed, who shall be and continue members of the said
corporation until they be removed in manner and form following; that is to say, one third part in
number of the trustees aforesaid, being the third part of the said nine trustees herein first named,
shall cease and be discontinued, and their appointment determine, on the first Monday in January, in 
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, upon which a new election shall be had
and held of so many others  their place and stead, by a majority of the male members of the said
congregations met, and qualified to vote and elect as is herein after mentioned, described and directed,
and that such election shall and may be held in such manner, and at such place, as the said corporation
shall from time to time appoint and direct; and on the first Monday in January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and three, the second third part in number of the said nine 
trustees aforesaid shall in like manner cease and be discontinued, and their appointment determine,
and a new election shall be held in like manner of an equal number in their place or stead; and on
the first Monday in January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four, the last
third part in number of the said nine trustees shall cease and be discontinued, and their appointment
determine, and a new election shall be had and held in the same manner; and by the like mode of
rotation, one third part in number of the elected trustees shall cease and be discontinued, and their



 
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