ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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respectively named in said conveyances; and to sanction the

holding and disposal of said lot of ground by each of said sev-

eral corporations under said respective conveyances; and to

sanction the acquisition and holding of the leasehold, rever-

sionary and fee-simple interests in said lot of ground by the

home missionary society of the Maryland annual conference of

the methodist protestant church, a body corporate under the

laws of the State of Maryland, under the conveyances to it here-

in specified, and to ratify and confirm the title of said corpo-

ration to said lot of ground, so far as said title is acquired,

through and under the several conveyances herein specified.

WHEREAS, by indenture dated August thirteenth, A. D. eigh-

teen hundred and four, and recorded among the land records of

Baltimore city, in liber W. G., number eighty-two, folio five hun-

dred and forty-four, &c., John Bouldin did lease unto Charles

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Garty and others, and the survivors or survivor of them, as trus-

tees for the evangelical protestant German Lutheran congregation

of Baltimore city, the lot of ground situate on the northeast cor-

ner of Broadway and Monument street, in the city of Baltimore,

in said indenture particularly described, for the term and at the

rent in said indenture set forth; and,

WHEREAS, said congregation subsequently became duly in-

corporated under the laws of this State under the name of "The

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trustees of Zion church of the city of Baltimore;" and,

WHEREAS, by assignment dated September twenty-fourth, A. D.,

eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and recorded among the afore-

said land records, in liber E. D., number one hundred and thirty-

five, folio one hundred and seventy-nine, &c., John Jacob Peter,

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administrator of Henry Schroeder, the survivor of the trustees

named in the above mentioned lease, did assign the legal title to

the leasehold interest in said lot to " The trustees of Zion church

of the city of Baltimore " aforesaid; and,

WHEREAS, said, " The trustees of Zion church of the city of

Baltimore " aforesaid, purchased and acquired the reversionary

and fee-simple interest in said lot under two deeds, one from Har-

riet Bouldin and others, dated September eighth, A. D., eighteen

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hundred and fifty-seven, and recorded among the aforesaid land

records, in liber E. D., number one hundred and thirty-five, folio

sixty-four, &c., the other from Arianna Bouildin, trustee, dated

November third, A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and re-

corded among the aforesaid land records, in liber E. D., number

one hundred and thirty-eight, folio one hundred and fifty-one,

&c.; and,

WHEREAS, by bond of conveyance, dated November seventeenth,

A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and recorded among the