JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

holder shall be entitled to one vote for every share of stock
held by him; but no person shall be eligible as director who
is not a stockholder to the amount of at least ten shares of
stock; and that the president and directors of the company
shall hold and exercise their offices until a new election of
president and directors; and that all elections which are by
this Act, or by the by-laws of said company, to be made on a
particular day, if not made on such day may be made at any
time thereafter.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1900.

CHAPTER 247.

AN ACT to consolidate the corporations known as the Trus-
tees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, called the Eden
Chapel, and the William Watters Memorial Methodist
Episcopal Church of Harford County, and to enlarge the
powers of the consolidated corporation.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the corporation known as "The Trustees of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, called Eden Chapel," incorpor-
ated under the Act of eighteen hundred and two, Chapter
three, the certificate thereof being now of record in the office
of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Harford County, in Liber
H. D., No. 29, folio 147, and the corporation known as The
William Watters Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church of
Harford County, incorporated under the General Incorporation
Laws of the State of Maryland, the certificate thereof being
now of record in the office of said Circuit Court, incorporation
record W. S. F., No. 2, folio 321, be and the same are hereby
consolidated into a single corporation to be known as The
William Watters Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church.

Wm. Watters.
Memorial
Methodist
Episcopal Ch.
Consolidation.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said The William Wat-
ters Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, so formed as
aforesaid, and its successors, shall be and is hereby declared
to be a body corporate and politic by the name and style
aforesaid, and by that name shall have perpetual succession
and be capable in law of purchasing, holding, improving and
disposing of real and personal property for the purposes here-
inafter authorized; provided, it shall not at any time own or
hold real estate exceeding thirty acres in quantity, and that

Power to
acquire and
sell real estate,
etc.