ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 469

CHAPTER 267.
AN ACT to authorize and empower the Trustees of the Lower West Nottingham Presbyterian Church, in Cecil county, or their successors, to receive by conveyance a lot of ground as an addi- tion to the Grove surrounding said church. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Thomas J. Gillespie, Robert N. Hindman, William B. Rowland. James M. Eveans, George Gillespie, Theodore L. Marshall, Samuel Tosh, John W. Mount and James O. Mc- Cormick, the present Trustees of the Lower West Nottingham Presbyterian Church, in Cecil county
and their successors be, and they are hereby author- ized and empowered to purchase and hold in trust from the executor of Elizabeth A. McMains, late of said county deceased, to them and their succes- sors, a lot of ground with the improvements there- on, supposed to contain four acres of land more or less, as an addition to the grove surrounding said church for the uses of the same.		Trustees to hold in trust.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved April 4, 1870.		In force.
CHAPTER 268.
AN ACT to authorize John H. Stokes, of Harford county, surviving Trustee, to sell and convey a parcel of land to the Trustees of Deer Creek, monthly meeting of Friends for the use of their members at Broad Creek meeting.
WHEREAS, John Lewin, late of Harford county deceased, did convey by deed on the seventeenth day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, (1869,) which deed is recorded in Liber, W. G., number eleven, folio one hundred and twenty-one, one of the land Records of the Circuit Court for Harford county, to John H. Stokes and Thomas	Preamble.