ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 409.

AN ACT to incorporate the Westminster Theological

Seminary of the Methodist Protestant Church.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That Lanrance W. Bates, Joshua F.

Murray, John D. Kinzer, Joshua W. Bering, William

J. C. Dulaney, Thomas H. Lewis, John W. Hull, Ju-

lius C. Roberts, Charles E. Crenshaw, Francis H. M.

Henderson and Thomas B. Appleget, and their suc-

cessors in office, as herein provided for, are hereby

constituted a body corporate by the name of " The

Westminster Theological Seminary of the Methodist

Constituted a

Protestant Church," and by that name the corporation

body corporate

shall have perpetual succession, the right to sue and

be sued, the right to contract and be contracted with,

and to make and use a common seal, and to alter the

same at pleasure, and may acquire, have, hold, pos-

sess, use and enjoy, upon the trusts and for the uses

and purposes of said corporation, by purchase, gift,

grant, devise or bequest, any real estate or personal

property, and may let, lease, sell, grant, alien and con-

vey any of said real estate or personal property.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the objects and

purposes of the said corporation are the establishment,

maintenance and support within the State of Mary-

land of a theological faculty and seminary, and of

theological instructions and education therein, under

Object, purpose

the direction and supervision of the general conference

and powers.

of the Methodist Protestant Church, as herein pro-

vided, and in consonance with the doctrines and dis-

cipline of said church, with power to confer on gradu-

ates of said seminary proper degrees in theology, and

to confer honorary degrees upon clergymen.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the government of

said corporation and the management of its property,

business and affairs are hereby vested in a board of

governors, to be known as the board of governors of

the Westminster Theological Seminary of the Metho-

Commuted a
board of gover-

dist Protestant Church, composed of eleven persons,

nors.

constituted as follows : Three ministers and two lay-

men, elected by the Maryland annual conference of

the Methodist Protestant Church, the president of the

faculty of said seminary ex officio, and two ministers