WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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effectual a manner as any other person or persons,

bodies politic and corporate within this State, can

or may do.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said corpora-

tion, and their successors, shall be and are hereby

authorized and empowered to make, ordain and es-

tablish, by-laws and ordinances, and do everything

Establish

incident and needful for the support and due gov-

by-laws.

ernment of the said corporation, and managing the

funds and revenues thereof; provided the said by-

laws and regulations be not repugnant to the con-

stitution and laws of the United States, to the

constitution and laws of this State, to this act, or

to the constitution of the Maryland Classis of the

Reformed church in the United States.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said cor-

poration shall consist of five persons, neither more

or less, who shall be members of the Maryland Clas-

sis of the Reformed church in the United States,

Number con-
stituting the

and continue to be members of the said corporation

corporation.

for the term of five years each, the term of office to

end always on the first day of January; and the said

Maryland Classis of the Reformed church of the

United States shall, annually, change one-fifth of

the said board or corporation in such manner as to

the said classis shall seem proper, but the same person

may not be re-elected until after he shall have ceased

Term of trus-

to be a member of the said board or corporation for

tees.

at least one year; provided, however, that the afore-

said trustees, namely : Edmund R. Eschbach, Si-

mon S. Miller, Louis Markell, J. Taylor Motter and

Jacob H. Lichliter, shall continue in office as fol-

lows: one of them until the first day of January,

in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-

dred and eighty-three; one until the first day of

January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-

four; one until the first day of January, one thous-

and eight hundred and eighty-five; one until the

first day of January, one thousand eight hundred

and eighty-six; and one until the first day of Janu-

ary, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven;

these different terms of office to be distributed, by

lot or otherwise, by the said corporation, among

How distrib-

themselves, at their first meeting; and further, if

uted.

the place of any member of the said corporation be

made vacant by death, resignation or otherwise, it