JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 573
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WHEREAS, by the act of eighteen hundred and
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twelve, chapter one hundred and fifty-eight, and
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eighteen hundred and twenty-one, chapter one hun-
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dred and thirty, the title to said property vested in
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certain trustees, of whom some belonging to the
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meeting then worshipping in the meeting-house on
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said property, and the others belonging to the
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meeting worshiping in the western part of the city,
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both meetings constituting now the monthly meet-
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ing of the said Society of Friends in Baltimore city,
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and —
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WHEREAS, by the act of eighteen hundred and
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fifty-two, chapter two hundred and sixty-eight, the
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trustees therein named, appointed by the respective
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meetings, were authorize to sell or lease the part or
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portion of said property, and appropriate a portion of
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the proceeds to enclosing that part of said lot which
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had been used as a burial-ground, and with the other
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to purchase a burial-ground out of the limits of the
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city, both of the objects contemplated by said act of
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Assembly having been accomplished, and —
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WHEREAS, since the purchase of the burial-ground
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out of the limits of the city, there has been but few
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interments, and none of late years, within the burial-
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ground on said property, and no probability of its
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ever again being used as a place of interment for the
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dead, and —
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WHEREAS, both of said meetings, the one wor-
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shiping in the meeting-house on said property, and
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the other worshiping in the meeting-house on Lom-
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bard street, comprising the monthly meeting of said
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Society of Friends, being desirous of disposing of a
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portion of said property not covered by the meeting-
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house, for the purpose that out of the proceeds of
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sale or lease, of giving education to the children of
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parents, one or both of whom may be members of
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the Society of Friends, and
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WHEREAS, John C. Turner, William Riley, M. D.,
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John Brown, Joseph Mathews, havingbeen appointed
by their respective meetings trustees, the legal title
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to said property is vested in said trustees, therefore —
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