WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 366.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments

chapter two hundred and eleven of the acts of

eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled "An

Act to incorporate the Trustees of Masonic Hall

and Church in Bel- Air."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That chapter two hundred and

He pealed and

eleven of the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-

re-enacted.

four be and the same is hereby repealed and re-en-

acted to read as follows :

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That A. Lingan Garrett, Wm.

H. Dallam, Wm. S. Richardson, Herman Stump, E.

Hall Richardson, Isaac Amos, John Bauer, Edwin

H. Webster and Joseph M. Street, be and the same

are hereby incorporated in the name of the Trustees

of the Masonic Hall and Church in Bel-Air, in Har-

Incorporated.

ford county; and they and their successors forever

are hereby authorized to take and hold the lot and

building thereon in the town of Bel-Air, in said

county, which was heretofore conveyed by the jus-

tices of the levy court of Harford county to John

McKenny, Grace D. Maulsby, James Parnell and

Samuel Bradford.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corpo-

ration shall hold said lot and building in trust for

Hold building
in trust.

the use of Mount Ararat Lodge, number forty-four,

Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, and for the

purposes of religious worship; shall have the full

control of the same; may regulate the use thereof;

may rent or lease the same to any religious denomi-

nation or denominations, and apply the rents, issues

and profits thereof to the repair, preservation and

improvement of said property; may mortgage or

sell the same, and execute a deed in fee to the pur-

chaser thereof whenever Mount Ararat Lodge shall

so determine, and invest the proceeds arising from

Invest pro-

the mortgaging or sale thereof in the purchase of

ceeds.

another lot in the town of Bel- Air, and the erection

of a building thereon for the use of said Mount

Ararat Lodge, the said last mentioned lot and build-

ings thereon to be held by said corporation with the