ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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the clerk of the circuit court for Baltimore county,

been duly incorporated under the name of Grace

Methodist Episcopal Church South, of Reisterstown,

in Baltimore county, and have acquired for the pur-

poses of the corporation property under the said name ;

SECTION 1. Therefore, be it enacted by the General

Assembly of Maryland, That the two corporations

so formed be and the same are hereby united and con-

solidated under the name of Grace Methodist Episco-

pal Church South, of Reisterstown,' in Baltimore

county, and that the church property in or near the

United and con-
solidated.

village of Reisterstown, now used by the corporation,

and the lands appurtenant thereto, including forty

square perches, more or less, and all other property,

real and personal, now held by either of said corpo-

rations heretofore so formed, or in trust for or on

behalf of or to the use of the same, or the members

thereof, be and the same is hereby vested in the said

consolidated corporation.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted as aforesaid,

That the trustees of the said consolidated corporation.

to act in its name and behalf, and to manage its estate,

property and inheritance, shall be the trustees desig-

Who to be trus-

nated in the certificate of incorporation of said corpora-

tees.

tion known prior hereto as Grace Methodist Episcopal

Church South, of Reisterstown, in Baltimore county,

and the powers of said consolidated corporation shall

be the same as those of said corporation known prior

hereto as Grace Methodist Episcopal Church South,

of Reisterstown, in Baltimore county; and the time

and manner of electing trustees of the said consoli-

Trustees? how

dated corporation, and the rights and duties of said

elected.

trustees, and the manner in which their successors

shall be perpetuated, and the qualifications of the

persons severally electing and elected, and the times

and places of the meeting of members, shall be the

same as provided for the said corporation known prior

hereto as Grace Methodist Episcopal Church South,

of Reisterstown, in Baltimore county.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted as aforesaid,

That the said trustees shall be capable in law to pur-

chase, take and hold, to them and their successors, in

fee, or for a less estate, an amount of property not

Powers of trus-

exceeding the amount that religious corporations in-

tees.

corporated under the general laws of this state may

now so purchase, take and hold, and to use or lease,