| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
of The Third Haven Monthly Meeting of Friends, by the name
and style of The Trustees of the Third Haven Monthly Meeting of
Friends, by which name and style they the said trustees, and their
successors, shall be competent and capable in law and in equity, to
grant, bargain, sell and convey, they have previously obtained
the consent and approbation of the said Third Haven Monthly
Meeting of Friends agreeably to the order established amongst
them, all or any parts or parcels of the lands, messuages or property,
of the said Third Haven Monthly Meeting of Friends, also
all or any of the lands, messuages or property, which they as trustees
as aforesaid, or their successors, may hereafter acquire or hold,
for the use and benefit of the said Third Haven Monthly Meeting
of Friends; and the said trustees, and their successors, shall also
be competent and capable in law and in equity, to purchase, take
and hold, to themselves and their successors, for the use and benefit
of the said Third Haven Monthly Meeting of Friends, and
their successors, any estate in messuages, lands and tenements,
annuities, goods, chattels, monies or effects, by the gift, grant,
bargain, sale, conveyance, devise or bequest, of any person or
persons whatsoever, at any time or times hereafter, provided the
same do not exceed in the whole the clear yearly value of two
thousand dollars, and the same messuages, lands and tenements,
and other estate or property, real or personal, to farm let, sell, or
put out on interest, for the use and benefit of the said Third Haven
Monthly Meeting of Friends, and to receive the rents, issues, profits,
income and interest of the same, and to apply the emoluments thereof
as the said Third Haven Monthly Meeting of Friends shall from
time to time order and direct. |
1815.
CHAP. 135. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That at all times for
ever hereafter, when
any vacancy or vacancies shall happen in the said community, corporation
or body politic, by the death, removal, resignation, or disownment
by the society of Friends, of any one or more of the members
thereof, the then members of the Third Haven Monthly
Meeting of Friends shall and may, with all convenient speed, proceed
to appoint another person, or other persons, to fill such vacancy
or vacancies, and in like manner shall all future vacancies
in the said community, corporation or body politic, be supplied and
filled, so as to keep up the number of five trustees. |
Vacancies how to
be supplied. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
by the name and style of The Trustees of the Third Haven
Monthly Meeting of Friends, shall be capable and competent
in law and in equity, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
in any court of law or equity, and before any judge or judges,
justice or justices, or tribunal within this state or elsewhere, in all
suits, complaints, pleas and clauses, of whatsoever kind, in as full
and effectual manner as any person or persons, bodies politic or
corporate, within this state, in like cases may or can do or perform,
and the said trustees, and their successors, or majority of
them, shall have full power and authority to make, keep and use,
one common seal, with such device or devices and inscriptions
thereon as they may think proper, and therewith to pass and authenticate
the certificates, acts, orders or proceedings, of the said
corporation, and the same seal at their pleasure to break, alter and
renew. |
May sue and be
sued, &c. |
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