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CHAP. 133. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
of the infant or infants that such land should be sold, and report
the same to the court, with their reasons therefor; Provided, that
the said report shall not be conclusive on the court, but the court
may in their discretion, examine witnesses, and have other testimony,
and shall decree a sale only in those cases where, under all circumstances,
the court shall be satisfied that a sale would be for the
interest and advantage of the infant or infants.
See 1816, ch. 154. |
| To take an oath. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, before they proceed to act, shall take an oath, or
affirmation, that they will impartially ascertain the quality and
value of the said lands, with the advantages and incumbrances attending
the same, and a true report thereof make to the best of
their skill and judgment. |
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Passed Feb. 6, 1819.
* 1798, ch. 30. |
CHAP. CXXXIV.
A Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act to incorporate the Baptist
Church in the City of Baltimore. Lib. TH.
No. 6, fol. 347. |
Committee of
church made able
to purchase and
hold estate. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the committee of the Baptist Church in the city of Baltimore, and
their successors, shall hereafter be able and capable to purchase,
receive, hold and enjoy, any estate, real, personal or mixed, provided
the same, (including what they now hold,) shall not exceed
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. |
To hold such estate
as fully as the
estate they now
hold under former
law. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said committee
of the said
church, and their successors, shall hold and enjoy any such real,
personal, or mixed estate, (not beyond the said sum of one hundred
thousand dollars,) as fully and completely, and to the same intents
and purposes, as they now hold and enjoy under their aforesaid
original act of incorporation. |
| Section repealed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the tenth section
of the said act,
to which this is a supplement, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
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Passed Feb. 6, 1819. |
CHAP. CXXXV.
An Act to incorporate the Trustees of the New-Market Academy, in
Dorchester County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 347. |
Trustees appointed
and incorporated. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Henry P. Waggaman, John Newton, Levin Marshall, Thomas
Light, Morris Roach, Daniel Sulivane, John Stewart, and William
W. Eccleston, with such other citizens of Dorchester county as
they or a majority of them shall select, not exceeding fifteen in
number, be and they are hereby appointed trustees of the New
Market Academy in Dorchester county; and the said trustees, and
their successors, (to be elected in the manner herein after mentioned,)
shall be, and they are hereby erected and created, and declared
to be, one community, corporation and body politic, with perpetual
succession, in fact and in law, to all intents and purposes
connected with the said institution, by the name and style of The
Trustees of the New Market Academy, in Dorchester county, by
which name and title the said trustees, and their successors, shall
be competent and capable in law or in equity, to take and to hold,
to themselves and their successors, for the use of the said academy,
any estate in lands, tenements, goods, chattels, monies, stock,
funds or effects, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, devise |
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