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BENJAMIN OGLE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. |
1800. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said corporation
shall be
capable of purchasing hereafter real and personal property, not
exceeding in value the sum of four thousand dollars. |
CHAP. 14.
May purchase and
hold property. |
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CHAP. XV.
An Act to incorporate the Presbyterian Church in Snow Hill, in Worcester
County. Lib. JG. No. 3, fol. 379. |
Passed Dec. 19. |
WHEREAS application hath been made to this general
assembly
for an act of incorporation in behalf of the Presbyterian church in
Snow Hill, in Worcester county, which may enable them to manage
with convenience their temporal concerns; |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the present committee of the said church, consisting of the following
persons, viz. James Martin, John Stevenson, James Nairn,
Moses Nelson, Levi Hudson, Thomas Martin, of Snow Hill, Robert
Smith, George Rice, William Stevenson, Joseph Stevenson,
Ezekiel Wise and John Rock, and their successors, to be elected as
herein after mentioned, with their minister for the time being, shall
be, and hereby are created and declared to be, a body politic and
corporate, by the name, style and title, of The Committee of the
Presbyterian Church in Snow Hill, in Worcester 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. |
Persons incorporated. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the successors
of the present
committee of the said church shall be elected in the manner following,
viz. The members of the said church, being twenty-one years
of age, holding a pew, or part of a pew therein, and not being in
arrears more than six months for the same, may and shall meet at
such place as may be appointed by the said corporation, on the first
Monday of May in the year eighteen hundred and one, or on any
other Monday of the same month, and they may and shall continue
to meet in like manner on the first Monday of May every
third year, or on any other Monday of the same month, whereof
due notice shall be always given by the president of the said corporation,
for the time being, in the forenoon of the Sunday preceding
the day of such meeting, at the place where public worship is
usually held, and then and there they, or so many as may attend,
shall elect, viva voce, twelve members of the said church. |
Successors, how to
be elected. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of the
death or resignation
of any lay member of the said body corporate, the remaining
members, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority,
at their next or any subsequent meeting, to elect another person
in his place. |
Vacancies. |
5. 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, |
Property vested in
corporation. |
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