ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Chapter 205.

AN ACT to incorporate the Trustees of the Gun-
powder Baptist Church of Baltimore county,
Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That William H. Baker,

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William McCullough, Jesse Dailey, Bennet T.
Hoshall and John Parish, and their successors in
office, are hereby created a body corporate and
politic by the name and style of Gunpowder
Baptist Church of Baltimore county, Maryland,
and by that name shall have perpetual succes-
sion, and shall be able and capable in law 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, 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 incon-
sistent with the laws of this state or the United
States.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the corpora-
tion hereby created shall be able and capable in

Created body-
corporate.

law to have, hold and purchase, receive, possess,
enjoy and retain, to them and their successors
in office, any estate or interest whatever, and
not to exceed the sum of thirty thousand dollars
in property, real, personal and mixed, by deed,
assignment, devise, bequest or other mode of
conveyance or transfer, or from legal capability
to make such transfer or conveyance, and the
same to improve with such churches and build-
ings for the use of the congregation for public
or other worship.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all lands and
tenements, with the appurtenances now belong-

Powers.

ing to or held in the name of the incorporation
herein named, for the use and benefit of said
church, and all personal property, fixtures and
furniture now held by them, shall, from and
after the passage of this act, be vested in the
said body corporate hereby created and their
successors forever for the use and benefit of the

Lands, &c.,
vested.