| 1817.
CHAP. 67.
Passed Jan. 21, 1818. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. LXVII.
An Act to authorise the conveyance of certain Lands for the use
of the
Religious Society of Quakers for the support of a School
in Montgomery
County. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 556. |
Preamble.
* Article 34. |
WHEREAS by the declaration of rights*, all gifts,
sales or devises
of land, exceeding two acres, to any religious sect, order or
denomination, for the support, use or benefit of, or in trust for, the
same, are void without the leave of the legislature: And whereas
the
yearly meeting of the religious society of Friends, held in Baltimore,
have represented to the general assembly, that they are desirous
of establishing a school for the education of their children,
and that part of a tract of land situate in Montgomery county, called
Charley Forest, part of a tract of land called Brother's Content,
and part of a tract of land called George the Third, containing
three hundred and fifty-eight acres, more or less, has been purchased
for the purpose of erecting thereon suitable buildings for
said school and for the support of the same, and has been conveyed
by Whitson Canby, be deed bearing date the thirty-first day of May,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen,
to Andrew Ellicott, Isaac Brooks, Evan Thomas, junior, and
Isaac Tyson, junior, of the city of Baltimore, who are willing and
desirous to convey the same to the use of the religious society of
friends aforesaid, for the purpose aforesaid, if authorised so to
do by the legislature; |
Persons authorised
to convey land. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the leave of the legislature shall be and hereby is granted, that the
said Andrew Ellicott, Isaac Brooks, Evan Thomas, junior, and
Isaac Tyson, junior, shall be and they are hereby authorised to
convey to such persons as the religious society of friends shall direct
and appoint, the above mentioned tract or parcels of land, in
trust for the use on the said religious society of friends, for the purposes
aforesaid, in fee simple, for ever, and for no other use or purpose
whatsoever. |
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Passed Jan. 24, 1818.
† Dec. 1813, ch. 81. |
CHAP. LXVIII.
An Additional Supplement to the act†, entitled, An act to
establish a
Bank and Incorporate a Company under the name of The
Bank of
Caroline. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 557. |
Eleven directors to
be appointed. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the stockholders of the Bank of Caroline shall elect, by ballot, at
their annual election, eleven directors from among the stockholders,
eight of whom at least shall reside in Caroline county, to conduct
the business of the institution; and the president shall be elected
by the directors from their own body; the president and two directors
shall constitute a board to make the ordinary discounts. |
What notes may be
discounted. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be lawful
for the president
and directors of the Bank of Caroline to discount notes and bills,
which are not made on the face thereof negotiable at the Bank of
Caroline, or payable at some house in the village of Denton. |
| Repeal. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all such parts
of the act or acts to
which this is a supplement as are not inconsistent with, or repugnant
to, this law, shall have as full force and operation as if the same
had been incorporated into this law, and all such parts thereof as
shall be inconsistent with, or repugnant to this act, shall be and the
same are hereby repealed and made void. |
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