| NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 138. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
convict as they would have passed had the said offence been committed
subsequent to the passing of this act. |
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Passed Jan. 6, 1810.
* 1802, ch. 111. |
CHAP. CXXXIX.
An Act to confirm an Act*, entitled, An act to incorporate certain
Persons in every Christian Church or Congregation in
this State.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 357. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS 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 societies 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. |
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. |
| Incorporation continued. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and every incorporation
intended
to be formed, with all and every right, immunities, title and
interest, 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 available 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 in the act
aforesaid, of which this is confirmatory. |
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Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
CHAP. CXL.
An Act to lay out and make public a Road in Prince-George's County
and part of Anne-Arundel County. Lib. TH.
No. 2, fol. 358. |
Persons appointed
to review and lay
out road, &c. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Nicholas Snowden, Thomas Richardson, Archibald Edmonston,
Thomas Griffith and John Crow, or any three of them, be and they
are hereby authorised and empowered, to review the private road
now leading from captain Thomas Richardson's, in Prince-George's
county, by the mill of John Chew Thomas, on Patuxent river, until
it intersects the post-road from Baltimore to Washington about
one mile from the said mill, and to survey, mark and bound, the
same, not exceeding one perch and one half perch in width, which
said road shall be laid out and opened, the expense whereof, and all
damages sustained thereby, shall be paid by the parties interested
in the same; and the said road, when opened and made as aforesaid, |
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