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CHAP. 51. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
said corporation until the next election, whose names, on such election,
shall be declared by the pastor, and entered in the books of
the said corporation for that purpose to be kept. |
Trustees to meet
for transacting business
of the congregation. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
the trustees above named, and their successors, from time to time,
an occasion shall require, to meet together for the purpose of transacting
the business of the congregation under their care, of the time
and place of which meetings due notice shall be given to all the said
trustees at least two days before, and of which the pastor shall be
president, if attending; and if four of the said trustees shall attend,
they shall form a quorum or board, and shall have power, by a majority
of voices, to make, ordain and establish, such rules, orders
and regulations, for the management of the temporal business, and
disposing of the estate of the said corporation, as they shall judge
proper; Provided, that such rules, orders and regulations be not
repugnant
to the constitution and laws of this state. |
May adjourn until
a quorum shall
attend--a register
to be appointed. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the pastor, or
any member of the
said corporation, shall have full power and authority to adjourn
from day to day until a quorum shall attend; and the said corporation
are hereby authorised and empowered to appoint and employ
a fit and proper person as register of the said corporation, whose
duty it shall be to keep a fair and regular account of their proceedings,
which shall be subject to the inspection of any of the members
belonging to the said congregation. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. LII.
An Act to Incorporate a Company to open a Turnpike Road from Fort
Cumberland to the western side of the Laurel Hill, at
or near Union
Town. Lib. JG. No. 4. fol. 70.
By this act ten years were allowed
to the company, incorporated by the name
and style of The President, Managers and Company, of the Cumberland and
Union
Turnpike Road, for completing the said road, which has not been done. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. LIII.
An Act to correct an error in a certain Deed therein mentioned.
(a).
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 77. A Private Act.
(a) From Robert Pratt to David
Simm, for part of a tract of land called Pratt's
Choice Enlarged, now lying in Caroline county. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. LIV.
An Act relating to the public Roads in the several Counties therein
mentioned. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 78.
Supplements, 1087, ch. 15. 1808,
ch. 12. 1811, ch. 131, ch. 160, and 1817,
ch. 81. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the present mode of repairing the public
roads in Saint-Mary's,
Calvert, Charles, Caroline (b) and Dorchester counties, is
found by experience to be expensive, and inadequate to the purpose
intended, and it has been found necessary that proper regulations
should forthwith be made for keeping the roads of the said counties
in due repair; therefore,
(b) By 1811, ch. 160, December
1813, ch. 74, and 1816, ch. 65, all acts inconsistent
with, or repugnant to, those acts, are repealed as to Caroline county. |
Roads to be described
and recorded. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court for the counties aforesaid, or a majority
of them, be and they are hereby authorised and required to
meet together on the first Monday of April next, and on the same |
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