WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 341.

AN ACT to authorize and require Columbus J.

Shipley, of Baltimore county, to grant unto the

Trustees of the Catonsville Methodist Episcopal

Church, by a sufficient deed, a certain lot of ground

in Baltimore county.

WHEREAS the lot of ground on which said Catons-

ville Methodist Episcopal Church now stands was,

very many years ago, transferred by deed by Rebecca

Somerville to Richard Herbert, Wm. Marr, Jacob

Ruff, John Liddard and Columbus J. Shipley, the

building committee of said church; and whereas

Preamble.

said Columbus J. Shipley is the sole survivor of said

committee, and it is desired to have the sanction of

the General Assembly to enable him to give a good

and sufficient deed therefor to the trustees of said

church, therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That Columbus J. Shipley, sole

surviving member of said building committee, be

and he is hereby authorized, empowered and re-

quired to grant and convey unto said Trustees of

the Catonsville Methodist Episcopal Church afore-

said, by a good and sufficient deed, in fee simple,

Empowered to

and to their successors and assigns, the said lot of

grant and con-
vey.

ground in said deed referred to, and on which or a

part thereof said church now stands; and said Co-

lumbus J. Shipley is hereby clothed with full powers

to make such deed, and to do all that is requisite

for the acknowledgment, execution and recording

thereof, and in accordance with the intention of

this act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall

Effective.

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1882.