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Preamble.
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day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, and recorded among the land re-
cords of Anne Arundel county, in Liber G. E. G.
No. 3, folio 110, &c., Charles C. Stewart and
Hannah M. M. Stewart, his wife, did convey to
Thomas J. Richardson, A. Murray Thomas and
Thomas J. Franklin, trustees, and the survivor
or survivors of them, with power to such sur-
vivor or survivors to fill any vacancy occurring
in the number, a parcel of land in said county
known as the Quaker Burial Ground, and par-
ticularly described in said deed by metes and
bounds, in trust to them and their successors, to
hold the same for the use and benefit as a burial
ground for the persons named in said deed and
their families and heirs and such others as the
said trustees or survivors might grant permis-
sion to ; and whereas, experience has shown
that it is desirable to have burial grounds sub-
ject to the laws, rules and regulations of a cor-
poration, in order to secure to the living the
continual protection of the remains of their
dead ; and whereas, the said Thomas J. Richard-
son and A. Murray Thomas, two of said trustees,
have since died, and C. Morris Cheston and John
Thomas Hall have been duly appointed trustees
in their place and stead, and the said Thomas J.
Franklin, C. Morris Cheston and John Thomas
Hall, all residents of Anne Arundel county afore-
said, have prayed for an act of incorporation for
the purpose aforesaid ; therefore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That Thomas J. Franklin, C.
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Power to fill
vacancies.
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Morris Cheston and John Thomas Hall, and
their successors, be and they are hereby created
a body corporate by the name of trustees of the
West River Quaker Burial Ground, and by that
name shall have perpetual succession, with
power to. fill vacancies in the number of its
trustees, and to make and use a common seal,
and alter the same at pleasure, and to hold the
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