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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1. Edward Buckey, James Whitehill, Asbury H.

Hunt, Andrew Boyd, and John H. Keller, the pre-

sent trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of

Incorporation

Frederick, together with such additional trustees,

not exceeding the number of nine in all, as may be

elected by the next Quarterly Conference of the

Methodist Episcopal Church of Frederick City Sta-

tion, held after the passage of this act, and their suc-

cessors, are hereby declared to be a body politic and

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

tees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Frederick,"

and by the same name shall have perpetual succes-

Powers

sion, to have, hold, enjoy, and be seized and pos-

sessed of real, personal, and mixed estate; to sell and

convey the same; to sue and be sued, plead 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 establish such by-laws or ordinances as shall

appear necessary for regulating the temporal con-

cerns of said church; provided, the same be not in-

consistent with the laws of this State, or the rules of

discipline which have been or may be established by

the competent and legal authorities of the Methodist

Episcopal Church in the United States.

2. There shall annually be elected by the Fourth

Quarterly Conference of Frederick City Station of the

Annually elect

Methodist Episcopal Church in accordance with the

discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, such

number of trustees, not exceeding nine, nor Jess than

three in number, as such Quarterly Conference may

deem expedient, and who, for the time being and

until their successors are duly elected, shall consti-

tute the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church

of Frederick, and as such shall hold and manage and

control all property now belonging to the Trustees of

the Methodist Episcopal Church of Frederick, or

that may be by them hereafter required, in accord-

ance with the discipline of said church; provided

always, that should any of said trustees at any time be

responsible for any sum or sums of money by reason

of their trusteeship on account of said church pro-

perty, such trustees so responsible shall not be ejected

or removed from their trusteeship while such liabil-

ity exists, unless they shall be fully indemnified and

secured from loss, or the creditor is willing to accept