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CHAP. 135. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
metes and bounds expressed in the said deed, all that lot or parcel
of land on which the Tuckahoe Meeting House now stands, the same
lot being part of the tract of land called Pannott's Lot, and situate
in the county aforesaid, near Tuckahoe Creek, and containing the
like quantity of land more or less; also that they have in like manner
peaceably and uninterruptedly held, used and occupied, under
and in virtue of a deed of conveyance made and executed on or
about the twentieth day of March, in the year seventeen hundred
and forty-five, by Walter Jenkins, of the county aforesaid, to William
Sharp, Solomon Sharp, Samuel Sharp, John Dickinson and
Henry Dickinson, and their heirs, for the use and benefit of the
Third Haven Monthly Meeting of Friends aforesaid, agreeably to
the metes and bounds expressed in the said deed, all that lot or
parcel of land on which their Choptank Meeting House stands, the
same lot being part of the tract of land called Poughick's Ridge,
and situate, lying and being, in the county aforesaid, and containing
by estimation one half acre of land, more or less; and that upon
examination they have lately discovered, that not only the
original trustees aforesaid, but also all their heirs, are either dead
and extinct, or cannot now be accurately ascertained, by reason
whereof their title has become somewhat precarious, and they being
desirous of making it more secure, have requested that an act of
assembly may be passed, ratifying and confirming their title in and
to the several lots or parcels of land aforesaid, and constituting certain
members of their society a body politic to manage and protect
the rights and interests of the said Third Haven Monthly Meeting
of Friends, and their successors, for ever; and the facts stated in
the said petition appearing to be true, and the application reasonable,
therefore, |
Title to certain
lands vested in
trust for benefit of
society. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the title and estate of the members of that branch of the society
of Friends commonly called Quakers, that is called and known
among the Friends, and in Talbot county, by the name and distinction
of the Third Haven Monthly Meeting of Friends, in an
to all and singular the lots of land aforesaid, contained in the
deeds aforesaid, and the lands which they have used and occupied
as a branch of the society of Friends, be and the same are hereby
fully ratified and confirmed, and a fee simple estate in and to the
same lots of land is hereby vested in Robert Moore, John Kemp,
Thomas H. Dawson, James Wainwright and William W. Moore,
and their successors, as trustees for the use and benefit of the said
Third Haven Monthly Meeting of Friends, and their successors
for ever. |
Trustees appointed.
Powers. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Robert
Moore, John
Kemp, Thomas H. Dawson, James Wainwright and William W.
Moore, be and they are hereby constituted and appointed the trustees
of the said Third Haven Monthly Meeting of Friends, and
their successors; and the said trustees, and their successors, to be
elected in the manner herein after mentioned, shall be and are
hereby constituted, established, and declared to be, one corporation,
community and body politic, with perpetual succession, in deed and
in law, to all intents and purposes, connected with the temporal interests
and concerns of that branch of the society of Friends that
is called and known among the Friends by the name and distinction |
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