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CHAP. 92. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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
to be annual. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose
of keeping up and
perpetuating the trustees of the Jerusalem Church, an election shall
be held 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 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. |
Trustees to meet
for transacting business.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees
now appointed,
or who may be hereafter 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
Jerusalem Church, 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 Jan. 26, 1814. |
CHAP. XCIII.
An Act for the benefit of the Heirs of William Ringgold, of Kent
County. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 105. A Private Act.
A Supplement, 1815, ch. 96. |
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Passed Jan. 2, 1814. |
CHAP. XCIV.
An Act to open a Road from John Cain's Tavern to Berlin, in Frederick
County. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 107. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
road.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Patrick Magill, Grafton Duvall, Benjamin West, James S. Hook
and Theodore Beall, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners,
and they, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised,
as commissioners, to lay out an open, at the expense of the petitioner
for said road, or such of them as may be willing to contribute
thereto, a road not exceeding thirty feet in width, beginning
at or opposite to the tavern of John Cain, on the main Harper's Ferry
road, from thence passing between the lands of Abraham Easterday
and Perry Hilleary, thence along the land dividing the lands
of George Dutterow and Theodore Mitchell, to Benjamin Rice's
merchant and saw mills, thence through the lands of Thomas Hawkins,
by the widow Nyswonger's to Thomas Frazier's, and along
his land as now established to James Fenley's spring, thence to the
mouth of the lane dividing the land of Roger Nelson and Tobias
Belt, thence as the road now runs to Berlin on the river Potomac;
Provided, that the said road shall not be laid out through any
building, orchard, garden, yard or meadow, of any person, without
his or her consent in writing first had and obtained. |
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