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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the vestry of the
said church shall
not appoint or agree with a minister to officiate in the said church
for a longer time than one year, but they may re-elect or re-appoint
the same minister from time to time. |
1803.
CHAP. 45.
Not to agree with
a minister for
more than one
year. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
or a majority
of them, shall regulate and determine every thing relative to the
disposition of the pews, except as to the annual rent or charge of
the same. |
Trustees to regulate
disposition of
pews. |
6. AND, whereas by the eighth section of the
original law it is
enacted, that the said Jeremiah Yellott, John Scott, William Jolley,
Hezekiah Waters, Josias Pennington, Simon Wilmer, of Edward,
and James Corrie, and the survivors and survivor of them, shall
convey the lot and lots of land which they may have purchased, to
the vestry of the said church in fee-simple, and the said trustees
have only a leasehold interest in the lot wherein the said church is
built; BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, and the survivors
or survivor of them, shall convey to the said vestry such interest
only in the said lot or lots purchased, or to be purchased, which
they may have at the time of their conveyance to the said vestry, be
the same in fee or a leasehold interest. |
And convey to
vestry interest in
lots. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the first vestry
which shall be
elected for the said church shall be elected and considered the vestry
of the said church until the Easter Monday in the year eighteen
hundred and five. |
First vestry to
continue till 1805. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said trustees
do not purchase
or lease a lot of land for a burial ground before the powers
vested in them shall cease, any vestry of the said church may purchase,
in fee or for a lesser estate, a lot of land, either within or
without the city of Baltimore, not exceeding two acres, for a burial-ground
to the said church. |
Any vestry may
purchase a lot. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said trustees
shall purchase
a lot of land for a burial-ground, that they shall not be obliged to
convey the same to the vestry of the said church until the same
shall be paid for, and all sums of money by them paid, or contracted
to be paid, for the same, shall be discharged. |
Trustees not obliged
to convey burial-ground. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That after the first
election of a vestry
to the said church, no person shall be entitled to vote for a vestryman
for said church but free white male citizens, twenty-one
years of age, holding a pew, or half a pew, in the said church,
and professing themselves members of the same. |
Persons entitled
to vote. |
11. AND, whereas the said trustees have erected
a parsonage-house
on the lot whereon they have built the said church, BE IT ENACTED,
That their proceedings in this respect are approved and
confirmed. |
Proceedings approved. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any vestry of
the said church for
the time being may purchase the fee of the lot on which the said
church is built, and the fee of the lot of land purchased, or which
may hereafter be purchased, for a burial-ground, if the same shall
not in the first instance be purchased in fee. |
Any vestry may
purchase the fee
of lot on which
church is built. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every thing in
the original law
to which this is a supplement contrary to the provisions herein
contained, is and the same hereby stands repealed. |
Part of an act repealed. |
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