IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of the
death or resignation of an lay member of the
said body corporate, the remaining members, or a majority of them, shall
have full power and
authority, at their next or any subsequent meeting, to elect another person
in his place.
V. 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, with the consent and approbation of
nine members thereof, shall
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.
VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That at all meetings
of the said corporation the minister for the time
being shall be the president, and in case of the absence, removal or death,
of the minister, the lay
members of the corporation may appoint one of their own body president
pro tempore, who, during
such absence, or in the case of removal or death until the appointment
of another minister, shall
have all the authority and privileges of a president.
VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president
shall nominate and appoint three persons to be
the judges of each and every election that shall or may be held for the
electing of the lay members
of the said corporation, and that such nomination and appointment shall
be made a reasonable time
before each election.
VIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all acts or deeds
of the said corporation shall be signed by the
president, 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 president, 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.
IX. 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. |
CHAP.
XV.
How vacancies
are to be filled.
Property vested,
&c.
Minister to be
president, &c.
Who shall nominate
persons,
&c.
Acts, &c. to be
signed, &c.
Corporation
may purchase
property, &c |
An ACT, entitled, An act to repeal an act, entitled, An act for
the
more effectual preservation of the wild deer
in Somerset
and Dorchester counties.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That an
act passed at November session, seventeen
hundred and ninety-nine, entitled, An act for the more effectual preservation
of the
breed of wild deer in Somerset and Dorchester counties, be and the same
is hereby repealed.
II. BE IT ENACTED,
That and act of assembly, entitled, An act for the preservation of the
breed of wild deer, passed at November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine,
be and the same
is hereby revived and in force, so far as it relates to the county of Somerset. |
Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
An act repealed.
An act revived,
&c. |
