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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 164.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments sections one and three of chapter thirty-five of the acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "an act to incorporate the Methodist Episcopal Church at Port Deposit, " providing for the election of trustees of said church, and changing the name of said church to that of " The Trustees of the Tome Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church in Port Deposit.

Repealed and re-enacted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That sections one and three, of chapter thirty-five of the acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "an act to incorporate the Methodist Episcopal Church at Port Deposit, " be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Incorporators.

1. Elijah Reynolds, E. D. McClenahan, Theodore J. Vauneman, Thomas C. Bond, James A. Davis, Daniel Vauneman, Wesley W. Nickle and their successors, chosen as hereinafter provided for, shall be and are hereby created a body corporate and politic,

Powers.

by the name, style and title of the trustees of the Tome Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church in Port Deposit, and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, to have, hold, enjoy and be seized and possessed of real and personal and mixed estate, to sue arid be sued, implead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity in this State or elsewhere, to make and have a common seal and the same to break, alter or renew at pleasure, and also to do all such other acts and things as corporate bodies may of right do, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, or with the constitution and laws of the United States, or the discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Fill vacancies.

3. That whenever any vacancy shall occur in consequence of the death, removal or resignation of any of said trustees, the remaining trustees shall fill the