WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 261
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CHAPTER 170.
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AN ACT to amend the preamble and section one of
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an act passed by the General Assembly of Ma-
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ryland at December session, eighteen hundred and
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forty-nine, chapter two hundred and thirty, en-
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titled "An act to establish the Western Ceme-
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tery," by striking out the words " Fayette Street
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Methodist Episcopal Church " wherever they oc-
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cur therein, and inserting in lieu thereof the
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words, " Methodist Episcopal Church of the Fay-
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ette Street Station."
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
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bly of Maryland, That the preamble and section
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one of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the
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Western Cemetery," passed by the General Assem-
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Amended.
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bly of Maryland at the December session, eighteen
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hundred and forty-nine, be and the same are hereby
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amended to read as follows :
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WHEREAS the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal
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Church of the Fayette Street Station, in the city
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of Baltimore, incorporated under an act of the Gen-
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eral Assembly, of Maryland passed at December ses-
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sion, eighteen hundred and two, chapter one hun-
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dred and eleven, are desirous to obtain authority to
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Preamble
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purchase and hold a parcel of land in Baltimore
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county, and binding on the east margin of Gwynn's
Falls, about midway between the Baltimore and
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Frederick turnpike road, and at Calverton Mills, to
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be used as a public cemetery for the burial of the
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dead; therefore —
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
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bly of Maryland, That the trustees of the Metho-
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dist Episcopal Church of the Fayette Street Station,
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in the city of Baltimore, and their successors, be and
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Authorized
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they are hereby authorized to purchase and hold
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to hold addi-
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over and above the quantity of land which they are
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tional land.
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authorized to hold under the act aforesaid, not ex-
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ceeding fifty acres of land in Baltimore county, sit-
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