PRIVATE ACTS—CHARTERS. 65

PEESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SNOWHILL.

AN ACT to make valid the election of the Committee of the Presbyterian Church
in Snowhill, in Worcester county, and to regulate the election of said Committee
in future.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the election of the Committee of the Presbyterian Church in
Snowhill, in Worcester county, made in the month of June last, by the
members of the said Church, shall have the same force and effect in all
respects, and be as valid and effectual in law, as if the said election had
been made on any one of the Mondays of May last, appointed for that
purpose by the act of incorporation of the said Church, passed on the
nineteenth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the regular time or times for the elec-
tion of the said Committee, shall hereafter be as appointed by the said
act of incorporation; provided, that if the members of the said Church,
qualified by law, shall fail to elect new members of the said Committee
at such time or times, a new election may be held at any subsequent
time, on the same notice as now required by law; and provided fur-
ther, that the members of the old Committee, shall hold over till such
new election shall be held.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from its
passage.

ROCK HILL INSTITUTE.

AN ACT to incorporate Rock Hill Institute under the direction of the Brothers of the
Christian Schools, Ellicott's Mills, Howard county, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Henry Wall, known as Brother Tobias, Francis M. Barat, known
as Brother John Chrysostom, Barnard Howe, known as Brother Besas,
Francis Xavier Brenken, known as Brother Swithin, James Griffin,
known as Brother Cianan, and their successors, be and they are hereby
perpetually created and made a body politic by the name of the Rock
Hill Institute, under the direction of the Brothers of the Christian
Schools, with a view to charitable, literary and educational purposes;
and by that name shall have succession, with power to name and elect
officers, make and amend a constitution and by-laws for their govern-
ment, not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United
States, with power and authority to provide for the admission, removal
and rejection of members, to have and use a common seal, with the
privilege of altering the same at pleasure, to purchase or take and hold
by deed or otherwise, any property, real, personal and mixed, the an-
nual income of which, exclusive of libraries and philosophical and
chemical and other apparatus intended for, and in the use of their