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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
Ludwick Greenwood, Philip Greenwood and Peter Engle, that
they, together with sundry other persons of Frederick county,
purchased in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight,
of a certain Philip Greenawalt, four acres of land for the purpose
of erecting a school-house; that since the erection of said school,
all the persons interested are either dead or removed to the western
country, and that the petitioners aforesaid are the only persons
interested; and have prayed that a law may pass empowering
Joseph Greenawalt and Emanuel Brower to sell and convey such
part of the four acres as may be necessary for them, to erect a
suitable building for a school, and a place of public worship, therefore, |
1811.
CHAP. 116. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the said Joseph Greenawalt and Emanuel Brower, or the survivor
of them, be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to sell
and dispose of such part of the four acres of land, as they may
deem necessary for the purpose of erecting a school-house, which
house, when so erected, may also be used as a place of public worship. |
Authorised to sell
certain land to
erect a school-house. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Greenawalt
and Brower,
or the survivor of them, on receipt of the purchase money,
shall by a good and sufficient deed, duly executed and acknowledged
according to law, grant, bargain and sell, make over and convey,
to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, and his, her or their
heirs and assigns, for ever, all the right, title, interest and estate,
of
those persons who purchased the aforesaid four acres of land, in
the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight; Provided nevertheless,
that the said Greenawalt and Brower, before they proceed
to said sale, shall give bond, payable to the state of Maryland,
with two sureties to be approved of by the judges of Frederick
county court, conditioned for the faithful performance of the
trust in them vested by this act, which bond shall be lodged with
the clerk of said county, to be by him recorded among the land
records of said county, and the same, or any office copy thereof,
shall be subject to be put in suit by any person or persons interested
therein. |
To convey said
property to purchasers
under a
certain provision. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Joseph Greenawalt,
Jacob Apler,
John Greenawalt, John Nichodemus and Henry Baker, senior, be
and they are hereby appointed trustees of the said school, with
power to fill up any vacancies that may happen by death, resignation
or refusal to act, of any one or more of the members thereof;
and that the said trustees and their successors, or a majority of
them, shall, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, appoint
such teachers for instructing the scholars in said school, and to
make such arrangements and regulations as they may conceive necessary
for the good government of said school, and the instruction
of the scholars aforesaid. |
Trustees of school
appointed. |
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CHAP. CXVII.
An Act for the relief of James Dixon, of Calvert County. Lib.
TH.
No. 3, fol. 132. |
Passed Dec. 27. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the judges of Calvert county court, or any one of them in the recess
of the said court, be, and they, or any one of them as aforesaid, |
Benefit of insolvent
laws extended
to him. |
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