| 1800.
CHAP. 57.
Persons incorporated. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland,
That James McCannon, William Hawkins, Isaac Burneston, Samuel
Owings, John Hagerty, Job Smith, Philip Rogers, Walter
Simpson and Caleb Hewitt, 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 Trustees of the
Methodist Episcopal Churches of the City of Baltimore, 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. |
Corporation, of
whom to consist--
how to be appointed.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said corporation
shall, at
all times hereafter, consist of the minister of the said congregations,
and nine other trustees, duly qualified, chosen and appointed,
as is herein after mentioned, described and directed, who shall be
and continue members of the said corporation until they be removed
in manner and form following; that is to say, one third part in
number of the trustees aforesaid, being the third part of the said
nine trustees herein first named, shall cease and be discontinued,
and their appointment determine, on the first Monday in January,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, upon
which a new election shall be had and held of so many others in
their place and stead, by a majority of the male members of the
said congregations met, and qualified to vote and elect as is herein
after mentioned, described and directed, and that such election shall
and may be held in such manner, and at such place, as the said corporation
shall from time to time appoint and direct; and on the first
Monday in January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and three, the second third part in number of the said nine
trustees aforesaid shall in like manner cease and be discontinued,
and their appointment determine, and a new election shall be held
in like manner of an equal number in their place or stead; and on
the first Monday in January, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and four, the last third part in number of the said
nine trustees shall cease and be discontinued, and their appointment
determine, and a new election shall be had and held in the same
manner; and by the like mode of rotation, one third part in number
of elected trustees shall cease and be discontinued, and their
appointment determine, and a new election of the said third part
be had and held, in manner and form aforesaid, on the first Monday
in the month of January in every year for ever, to the intent
that no person or persons shall continue to be a trustee or trustees
for any longer time than three years, without being re-elected, except
the minister for the time being as aforesaid, but that the electors,
qualified to vote as herein after is mentioned, described and
directed, shall and may be at liberty to re-elect the same trustees,
or any one or more of them, whose times shall expire on the day
of the said annual election, whenever and so often as they shall
think expedient; Provided always, that whenever any circumstances, |
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