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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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CHAPTER 162.
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AN ACT to repeal sections one and two of chapter five
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hundred and sixteen of the laws of Maryland passed by
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the General Assembly of Maryland at the December ses-
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sion of the year eighteen hundred and forty nine, and to
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re-enact the same wibh amendments and to add additional
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sections thereto, entitled section two A, section two B,
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section two C, section two D.
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WHEREAS, said act passed at said session, did authorize
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a corporation styled Bethel Cemetery, thereby formed, to
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acquire and hold real estate therein described for the pur-
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pose of a cemetery, to an extent not exceeding four acres, and
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WHEREAS, for the purpose of said corporation it is neces-
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sary that it should acquire and hold a greater quantity of
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land than four acres, and
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WHEREAS, under the supposition of its directors that it
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had the right to acquire more than four acres under the
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said act, land in excess of that quantity has been purchased
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by it for the purposes aforesaid, and
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WHEREAS, from the peculiar wording of the said second
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section of said act, it has been believed that the lot owners
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of said cemetery had the right to elect seven directors to
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succeed the seven directors in said act named, and
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WHEREAS, under said belief, it has been the practice for
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a number of years past, to elect seven directors therefor, and
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WHEREAS, at the present time Samuel Thompson, Henry
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Clayton, Joshua Clayton, J. Fletcher Price, Charles T.
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Ellison, Joseph H. Brooks, and James A. Lewis are direc-
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tors of said body corporate, elected under said supposed
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authority.
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SECTION 1. Therefore be it enacted by the General Assem-
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Bethel
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bly of Maryland, That the said Samuel Thompson, Henry
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Clayton, Joshua Clayton, J. Fletcher Price, Charles T.
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Ellison, Joseph H. Brooks, and James A. Lewis and all
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others who now are or hereafter may become owners or pos-
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sessors of burial lots in the cemetery aforesaid be and they
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are hereby ordained and declared to be a body corporate by
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the name and style of Bethel Cemetery, and by that name
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and style, they and their successors and assigns, shall and
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may have perpetual succession and be capable to sue in any
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court or courts of law and equity, to purchase, take, hold
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and enjoy in fee, land, not exceeding ten acres, goods, chat-
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tels, and effects of every kind which may be necessary to
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