ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOTEBNOB.

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Chapter 199.

AN ACT to repeal the act of incorporation of the

trustees of the property of the Methodist Episcopal

Church, in the town of Cumberland, Allegany

county, passed and recorded among the Land Re-

cords of Allegany county, Maryland. January

twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, in

Liber H. B., number six, folio five hundred and

fifty-one, and re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the article of incorporation of the

trustees of the property of the Methodist Episcopal

Church, in the town of Cumberland, Allegany county,

in this State of Maryland, adopted and recorded by

Repealed and
re-enacted.

said trustees on the twenty-second day of January,

eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and recorded in Land

Records H. B., number six, folio five hundred and

fifty-one, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-

enacted so as to read as follows :

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That Jesse Korns, Levi

R. Fechtig, Charles W. Brengle, William Weber,

Valentine A. Buckey, John H. Young, William M.

Rice, William Wickard and Jacob Shuck, and their

successors in office, are hereby created a body corporate

and politic by the name and style of Centre Street

Methodist Episcopal Church, of Cumberland, Allegany

county, Maryland, and by that name shall have per-

Created a body

petual succession, and shall be able and capable in law

corporate.

to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer

and be answered in every court of law or equity, or

before any judge or officer of this state or elsewhere ;

and to make and have a common seal, and the same

to alter and renew at pleasure; and also to do all such

other acts and things as may be necessary to carry

into effect this corporation not inconsistent with the

laws of this state or of the United States.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the corporation here-

by created shall be able and capable in law to have, hold

and purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain to them

Purchase estate

ed their successors in office any estate or interest

or interest.

whatever, and not to exceed the sum of one hundred

thousand dollars in property, real, personal and mixed,

by deed, assignment, devises, bequests or other mode