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LAWS OFf MARYLAND.— 1809.

penitentiary, and therein to be kept during the term of his or
her confinement, in the manner, and on the terms, herein men-
tioned ; and every sheriff who shall wilfully neglect to remove,
and safely to deliver, at the penitentiary, such convict, shall
forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars, to be reco-
vered by action of debt in any court of record, and applied,
one-half to the use of the county where sentence was passed,
the other to the use of such person as will sue for the same.
SEC. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45,
46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, are all repealed by and principally re-enacted in
4837, ch. 330.

CHAPTER 139,

*l802, ch.
111.

An ACT to confirm an ACT,* entitled, an Act to incorporate certain persons
in ev#ry Christian Church or Congregation in this state.

Preamble.

WHEHEAS, the general assembly of Maryland at November
session, eighteen hundred and two, taking into consideration
the number of petitions from different religious societies in this
state for acts of incorporation, and intending to place them all
on the same equal footing, by enacting a general law, whereby
every Christian society might obtain for itself all the rights and
benefits of an incorporation, by proceeding according to the
provisions therein prescribed, but the said act wanting the words
'by the General Assembly of Maryland,' in the enacting style
for all laws, prescribed by the constitution of this state, the
validity thereof may be questioned, and several religious socie-
ties of different denominations throughout this state may be
thus deprived of the rights, property and advantages, intended
to be secured to them by the legislature, for remedy thereof,

An act
confirmed.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the aforesaid act, entitled, an act to incorporate certain
persons in every Christian church or congregation in this state,
shall be and the same is hereby confirmed, and the said act is
hereby declared as a law of this state, to be as binding and
available as if the same, and every provision thereof, was herein
formally and specially recited and re-enacted.

incorpora-
tion con-
tinued.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That all and every incorporation
intended to be formed, with all and every right, immunities, title
and interests, belonging or incident thereto, and all proceedings
held in pursuance of, or by virtue of, the powers and authority
meant to be granted by the said act, shall be and the same are
hereby fully confirmed, and declared to be as good and availa-
ble both in law and in equity, as the same would, could or
might have been, if the style of the enacting words aforesaid
was complete, and the entire form thereof had been originally
and properly inserted it the act aforesaid, of which this is
confirmatory.