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LAWS OF MARYLAND. |
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and their successors, for ever; and the said corporation,
with the consent and approbation of nine members thereof, shall
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. |
Minister to preside
at all meetings. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That at all meetings
of the said corporation
the minister for the time being shall be the president, and in
case of the absence, removal or death, of the minister, the lay members
of the corporation may appoint one of their own body president
pro tempore, who, during such absence, or in the case of removal
or death until the appointment of another minister, shall have
all the authority and privileges of a president. |
Judges of elections
of lay-members. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president shall
nominate and
appoint three persons to be the judges of each and every election
that shall or may be held for the electing of the lay members of the
said corporation, and that such nomination and appointment shall
be made a reasonable time before each election. |
Acts of corporation
to be signed
and sealed. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all acts or deeds
of the said corporation
shall be signed by the president, 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 president, 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. |
May purchase and
hold property. |
9. 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. |
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CHAP. XVI.
An act, entitled, An act to repeal an act, * entitled, An act for
the more
effectual preservation of the breed of Wild Deer in
Somerset and Dorchester
Counties. Lib. JG. No. 3, fol. 381.
This act repealed by 1805, ch. 11. |
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Passed Dec. 19. |
CHAP. XVII.
An Act to lay out a Road from Christopher Walker's Mill, in Anne
Arundel County, to intersect the Frederick turnpike
road in Baltimore
County at or near the seven mile stone on the said turnpike
road. Lib. JG. No. 3, fol. 382. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly by the
petition of
Christopher Walker, that the public are incommoded for the want
of a road from said Walker's mill, in Anne-Arundel county, to intersect
the said Frederick turnpike road at or near the seven mile
stone; and this general assembly, impressed with an opinion that
the opening of said road would be of public utility; therefore, |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
road. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
George Ellicott, William Hammond and Abraham Jessop, or any
two of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to
survey, lay out and open, at the expense of the said Christopher
Walker, a road not exceeding thirty-three feet wide, in such direction |
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