III.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the lands and tenements, with their appertenances, now
vested in trustees for the use of the said church, and all other property of the said church, shall
be and are hereby absolutely and unconditionally vested in the said body corporate, and their successors,
for ever; and the said corporation shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, capable of
bargaining and selling, leasing and conveying, any part of the said property, or any other property
which may hereafter be acquired by the said corporation, in as full and effectual a manner as any
person or body corporate may or can do.

    IV.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That all acts or deeds of the said corporation shall be signed by the
elders, in behalf of the corporation, and sealed with their corporate seal; and all deeds by them for
the conveyance of any lands and tenements of the corporation, which by the law of the land ought
to be acknowledged and recorded, shall be signed and sealed as aforesaid, and shall also be acknowledged
in due form by the elders, as such, in behalf of the corporation; and all acts or deeds of the
said body corporate, so authenticated, shall be valid and effectual in law.

    V.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said corporation shall be capable of purchasing hereafter real
and personal property, not exceeding in vaLue the sum of four thousand dollars.

    II.  BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the present committee of the said
church, consisting of the following persons, viz. James Martin, John Stevenson, James Nairn,
Moses Nelson, Levi Hudson, Thomas Martin, of Snow Hill, Robert Smith, George Rice, William
Stevenson, Joseph Stevenson, Ezekiel Wise and John Rock, 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 Committee of the
Presbyterian Church in Snow Hill, in Worcester County, and by the same name shall have perpetual
succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued implead and 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 successors of the present committee of the said church shall
be elected in the manner following, viz.  THe members of the said church, being twenty-one years of
age, holding a pew, or part of a pew therein, and not being in arrears more than six months for the
same, may and shall meet at such place as may be appointed by the said corporation, on the first Monday
of May in the year eighteen hundred and one, or on any other Monday of the same month, and
they may and shall continue to meet in like manner on the first Monday of May every third year, we
on any other Monday of the same month, whereof due notice shall be always given by the president
of the said corporation for the time being in the forenoon of the Sunday preceding the day of such
meeting, at the place where public worship is usually held, and then and there they, or so many as
may attend, shall elect, viva voce, twelve members of the said church.