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CHAP. 135. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
recorded, and suits may be brought thereon, or upon any office copy
thereof, in the same manner as is prescribed by the original act
aforesaid. |
Powers vested in
persons not herein
named shall
cease |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the powers
and authority of
such of the persons named as commissioners in the act to which
this is a supplement, and who are not herein named as commissioners,
shall from henceforth cease and determine. |
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Passed Dec. 27. |
CHAP. CXXXVI.
An Act to authorise the Sale and Conveyance of certain Property
held
in trust for the German Lutheran Congregation of the
City of Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 151. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly
by the petition
of the elders, church-wardens, trustees, and a number of the
members of the German Lutheran Congregation of the city of Baltimore,
otherwise called The Evangelical Protestant Congregation
of the Unvaried Augsburg Confession of Faith, commonly distinguished
by the name of Lutherans, that they have found it necessary
to sell a part of the lot or lots of ground in the city of Baltimore,
heretofore at several times conveyed to certain members of
the said congregation as trustees, and held in trust by John Bridenback,
Peter Frick, Erasmus Uhler, Christopher Raborg and
Henry Schrœder, as surviving trustees, in trust for the use of the
erection of a place of public worship; that out of the proceeds
of such sale they might be enabled to pay the expenses incurred
in erecting a new church, or house of public worship, for
the use of said congregation; and have prayed the leave of this legislature
to make such sale; and that the said trustees, or a majority
of them, may be authorised to convey any ground sold, or
which the said congregation may find it necessary to sell for the
purposes aforesaid; and the prayer of the said petition appearing to
be reasonable, |
Certain persons
authorised to sell
lots. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the said John Bridenback, Peter Frick, Erasmus Uhler, Christopher
Raborg and Henry Schrœder, or any three of them, shall be
and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to convey to the
purchaser or purchaser of any part or parts of the said ground as may
have been sold by the direction of the elders, trustees and churchwardens
of the said congregation, or which they may direct to be
sold; and the deed of the said trustees, or any three of them, executed,
acknowledged and recorded as other conveyances are required
by law, shall be evidence of such direction, and shall convey
as good a title in law as if the trustees had held the property so intended
to be conveyed in their own right and to their own use. |
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Passed Dec. 27. |
CHAP. CXXXVII.
An Act for the benefit of the Heirs of Mark Guishard, late of Baltimore
County, deceased. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 152.
A Private Act. |
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