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LAWS OF MARYLAND. |
| CHAP. 13.
Preamble. |
WHEREAS by the original act to which this is a supplement
it is
provided, that when said gaol is completed, it shall, by the said commissioners
appointed for that purpose, be put into the custody and
possession of the sheriff of Baltimore county: And whereas by
said original act no provision is made for the removal of the prisoners
from the old to the new gaol; Therefore, |
Sheriff to remove
prisoners. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the sheriff of Baltimore county shall have power and authority, as
soon as he shall have received possession of the new gaol in said
county, to remove the prisoners from the old gaol to the new gaol
aforesaid, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Passed Dec. 19. |
CHAP. XIV.
An Act to incorporate a Presbyterian and Lutheran Church in the
County of Baltimore. Lib. JG. No. 3, fol. 377. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS application hath been made to this general
assembly
for an act of incorporation in behalf of the Presbyterian and Lutheran
church in the county of Baltimore, which may enable them to
manage with convenience their temporal concerns; |
| Elders incorporated. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the present elders of the said church, viz. Adam Showers, Adam
Burns, John Ritter and Henry Epaugh, and their successors, to be
elected agreeably to the rules and regulations of said church, shall
be, and hereby are created and declared to be, a body politic and
corporate, by the name, style and title, of The Elders of Zion
Church, in Baltimore County, and by the same name shall have
perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, implead
and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity in this state or
elsewhere, and to make and have a common seal, and the same to
break, alter or renew, at their pleasure, and also to ordain and establish
such by-laws and ordinances as shall appear necessary for
regulating the temporal concerns of the said church, and for promoting
literature within the same, not being repugnant to this act
or the laws of this state. |
Property vested in
them. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the lands and
tenements, with
their appertenances, now vested in trustees for the use of the said
church, and all other property of the said church, shall be and are
hereby absolutely and unconditionally vested in the said body corporate,
and their successors, for ever; and the said corporation
shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, capable of bargaining
and selling, leasing and conveying, any part of the said property,
or any other property which may hereafter be acquired by the said
corporation, in as full and effectual a manner as any person or body
corporate may or can do. |
Acts of corporation
to be signed
and sealed. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all acts or deeds
of the said corporation
shall be signed by the elders, in behalf of the corporation,
and sealed with their corporate seal; and all deeds by them for the
conveyance of any lands and tenements of the corporation, which
by the law of the land ought to be acknowledged and recorded,
shall be signed and sealed as aforesaid, and shall also be acknowledged
in due form by the elders, as such, in behalf of the corporation;
and all acts or deeds of the said body corporate, so authenticated,
shall be valid and effectual in law. |
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