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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 182.

AN ACT to incorporate the Trustees of the Synod

of the Potomac of the Reformed Church in the

United States.

WHEREAS, the Ministers and Elders forming the

Preamble

Synod of the Potomac of the Reformed Church in the

United States, consisting of citizens of the State of

Maryland, and of others of the United States of

America, have represented that by donations, de-

vises and bequests or otherwise, of charitably dis-

posed persons, they expect to be possessed of lands

and moneys, for benevolent and pious purposes, but

from the scattered situation of said ministers, and

elders and other causes, the said ministers and elders

will find it very difficult to manage the said lands

and moneys in the way best calculated to answer the

intentions of the donors, therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That Lewis H. Steiner, Louis Markell,

Incorporation

William Heyser, Jacob O. Miller and Samuel N.

Callender, and their successors, duly elected and ap-

pointed in manner as is hereinafter directed, be and

they are hereby made, declared and constituted a

corporation, and body politic and corporate, to have

continuance until otherwise ordered by the General

Assembly, by the name, style and title of "the Trus-

tees of the Synod of the Potomac of the Reformed

Church in the United States, " and by the name,

style and title aforesaid, shall hereafter be persons

Powers

able and capable in law as well to take, receive, and

hold such estate, property and effects, as may be ac-

quired by gift, purchase, devise or bequest by said

Ministers and Elders of the Synod of the Potomac

of the Reformed Church in the United States; or any

other person or persons, to their use or in trust for

them, according to the original use and intent for

which such gifts, purchases, devises or bequests shall

be respectively made, subject however, in the case of

devises and bequests to said corporation, always to

the sanction of the General Assembly of Maryland,

as provided in the declaration of rights.

Misnomer

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That no misnomer of the

said corporation and their successors, shall defeat or