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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 377

Wicomico county, passed at December Session, 1830, Chapter
102," be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments, to read as follows :
SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That whereas, George Todd, Levin Morris, James Morris,
John E. Pollitt, Robert Venables, Handy H. Irving, James

Body
corporate.

Hooper, Levin G. Irving, Anthony B. Bennett, Washington
Bennett, Humphrey Humphreys and William Stevens, incor-
porators under the aforesaid Acts of 1830, Chapter 102, are
now all deceased, the following named persons, F. Marion
Siemens, H. Laird Todd, Wilson Irving Todd, Levin Earnest
Williams, Louis W. Gunby, Franck C. Todd, Albert J.
Benjamin, John C. Ellis, Samuel A. Graham, George
C. Hill, Alexander D. Toadvine and F. Leonard Wailes,
the duly elected successors of the said incorporators, with
their successors elected as hereinafter set forth, shall be
and are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name,
style and title of "The Committee of the Wicomico Presby-
terian Church of Salisbury, Maryland," and by the same
name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to
sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in any court of
law or equity in this State or elsewhere, and to make and
have a common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew
at their pleasure, and also ordain and establish such by-laws
and ordinances as shall appear necessary for regulating the
temporal concerns of the said church, and for promoting
literature within the same not being repugnant to this Act
and to the laws of this State.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the successors of the said

Successors to
be appointed

committee of the said church shall be elected in the follow-
ing manner, to wit: The members of the congregation of the
said church, being twenty-one years of age, contributing
regularly towards the pastor's salary and current expenses
of the said church, may and shall meet at such place of the
said church as shall be appointed by the said committee
sometime during the month of January in the year nineteen
hundred and seven, whereof due notice shall be given accord-
ing to the by-laws of the said corporation, and then and there
they, or as many as may attend, shall elect viva voce twelve
members of the congregation of the said church, being
twenty-one years of age and contributing regularly towards
the pastor's salary and current expenses of the said church,