JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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building until the said new warehouse is completed,

for the purposes of supplying such necessity.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1876.

CHAPTER 317.

AN ACT to empower the Surviving Trustees of

Meeting House of the Associated Methodist

Church in Centreville, or a majority of them, to

convey a certain lot of ground in said town, unto

the Trustees of the Methodist Protestant Church

at Centreville, in Queen Anne's county, in the

State of Maryland.

WHEREAS, D. C. H. Emory, did in the year of our

Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty, convey

by deed to John D. Emory, Thomas Aschom, Phile-

Preamble.

mon B. Hopper, James K. Harper, William Reed,

John McFeeley, William Harper, Jr., Patrick Hor-

gon and Henry Stary, Trustees of the Meeting House

of the Associated Methodist Church in Centreville,

and their successors, in trust to and for the use of

the Members of the Associated Methodist Church

in Queen Anne's county, a lot of ground in said

town, which said deed was duly recorded among

the Land Records of Queen Anne's county, and the

property therein described, taken and held by said

trustees and their successors to the present time ;

and

WHEREAS, said Associated Methodist Church in

Centreville, w;as the only such Associated Methodist

Church ever in said county of Queen Anne's, and in

Preamble.

convention assembled with other Associated Metho-

dist Churches did form and adopt the constitution

and discipline for the government of the Methodist