| MAY 1813.
CHAP. 7. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
politic or corporate, may sue or be sued, plead or be impleaded,
and that it shall and may be lawful for the said trustees, by the
name aforesaid, to cause to be made and used one common seal to
authenticate all acts and instruments of writing respecting their
business, and the same at pleasure to alter and renew. |
| Election of trustees. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose
of keeping up
and perpetuating the trustees of the Westminster General Meeting
House, an election shall be held at some place in Westminster on
Easter Monday, in each and every year hereafter, or as soon
thereafter as conveniently may be, at which election each contributor
or person holding an interest in said property shall be entitled
to a vote; and for the purpose of ascertaining who are so entitled,
the trustees shall record in a book for that purpose, the
names of all persons who have contributed to, or associated for
the purpose of purchasing the property aforesaid, and which said
right to vote, and interest in said property, may be assigned or
transferred, by a simple transfer or assignment in writing, under
the hand of the party, attested by one witness or more. |
| Meetings of trustees. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees
now appointed,
and who may hereafter be elected, or a majority of them, and their
successors, from time to time, as occasion may require, may and
shall meet together to transact the business and superintend and
protect the property put under their trust and care, and shall make,
constitute and alter, such rules and orders for regulating their own
proceedings, and the management of the temporal concerns of the
Meeting House, as they shall judge most fit; provided that such
rules and regulations be not repugnant to the constitution and laws
of this state. |
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Passed May 24. |
CHAP. VIII.
An Act to authorise William Francis Lewis, former Collector of Calvert
County, to complete his Collections. Lib.
TH. No. 3, fol. 561. |
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Passed May 27. |
CHAP. IX.
An Act for the relief of Thomas B. Briscoe, of Saint Mary's County.
Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 562. |
Benefit of insolvent
laws extended
to him.
* Ch. 110. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the judges or any judge of Saint-Mary's county court, be and they,
or any one of them, are hereby authorised and directed to extend
to Thomas B. Briscoe the benefit and relief of the act of assembly,
passed at November session eighteen hundred and five *, entitled,
An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, and the supplements
thereto, without compelling him to produce the assent in
writing of so many of his creditors as have due to them the amount
of two-thirds of the debts due by him at the time of his application
for the benefit of this act, and to extend and to afford to the said
Thomas B. Briscoe all the benefits, advantages and provisions, of
the aforesaid act, and the supplements thereto, in the same manner,
and upon the same terms and conditions, as if he had obtained the
assent of two thirds of his creditors to his release under the
same. |
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