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GEORGE PLATER, Esquire, Governor.
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the leave of the
legislature be hereby granted to the said religious society of people called
Quakers,
to enjoy for ever the use of the said land in East Nottingham and West
Nottingham;
provided the chancellor, on examination, shall find the facts above
stated to be true, and that, in such case, the said chancellor shall
have full power
and authority to adjudge and direct a patent or patents of the said land
to certain
persons, and their heirs, to hold the same in trust for ever, to the use
of the said
society, according to the intention of the aforesaid original patent for
forty acres
in East Nottingham, and of the grant, licence or warrant, for taking
up of the
said five acres and one hundred and twelve perches in West Nottingham;
saving
to all persons, and bodies politic or corporate, their several and respective
rights. |
1791.
CHAP.
XVII.
Leave granted,
&c. |
CHAP. XVIII.
An ACT to empower the vestry of Great Choptank parish to sell
or apply the materials of the old church, in said parish,
to the
building a new church in Cambridge, and for other purposes
therein mentioned. |
Passed December
27. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the vestry of
Great Choptank parish, in Dorchester county, that the church in
said parish is in a very ruinous state, and that it is the wish of the
parishioners to sell the materials of said church, or to apply the same
to the
building a new church in said parish, |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and
may be lawful for the vestry of said parish, or any three or more of them,
to sell
and dispose of the materials of said old church, and to apply the money
arising
from such sale to the purpose of building a new church in Cambridge, in
the
county aforesaid, or to apply the materials of said old church to the building
a
new church in Cambridge, in the county aforesaid, as in the opinion and
judgment
of said vestry, or any three or more of them, shall be most conducive to
the interest of said parish. |
Vestry may
sell materials,
&c. |
III. And,
whereas the vestry of said parish is entitled to an estate in reversion
of and in part of a lot of ground lying in Cambridge, in the county aforesaid,
being parcel of the ground originally laid off for the church lands of
said parish:
And whereas the said lot of ground is more than sufficient to answer the
purpose
of a church-yard, and it is the wise of said vestry to apply the money
arising
from the sale of said reversion to the purpose of building a new church
as aforesaid,
Be it enacted, That it shall and
may be lawful for the said vestry to sell
and dispose of, at public sale, to the highest bidder, having first given
public notice
of the day of such sale at least four weeks previous thereto, by advertisement
at the
door of the court-house in said town, all the right and title of said vestry
of, in
and to the aforesaid part of the lot of land aforesaid, or any part thereof,
and to
execute such deed or conveyance to the purchaser of said part of the lot
of ground
aforesaid, as will be sufficient to convey to such purchaser all the
right and title
of said vestry of, in and to the said part of the lot of land aforesaid,
and to
apply the money arising from such sale to the building a new church in
Cambridge
as aforesaid. |
And dispose of
part of a lot,
&c. |
CHAP. XIX.
An ACT for the benefit of Charles Worthington. |
Passed December
27. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of Charles Worthington, that he intermarried, in the year seventeen
hundred and eighty-eight, with a certain Elizabeth Booth, of the
city of Williamsburgh, in the commonwealth of Virginia, daughter of
a certain
William Booth, late of the said commonwealth, deceased, and that he the
said
William Booth, and Elizabeth his wife, by deed duly made and executed,
conveyed
sundry negro slaves, in trust, to and for the use and benefit of the
children
of them the said William and Elizabeth, reserving the use of said negroes
to them
the said William and Elizabeth, during their lives: And whereas
the said WIlliam
Booth afterwards made and executed his last will and testament, by which
he |
Preamble. |
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