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AN ACT to empower Charles Stabler, George E.
Brooke, William John ' Thomas, Thomas M.
Reese, Edward Jessop and Richard H. Stabler,
or a majority of them to make sale of, and to
grant certain lands in Montgomery county, in
this State, and to invest the proceeds.
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Passed March
18, 1865.
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WHEREAS, by deed of conveyance, bearing date
the twentyreighth day of the eighth month, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
nineteen, and recorded among the land records of
Montgomery county, in Liber V, folios thirteen,
fourteen, fifteen and sixteen, Roger Brooke and
others granted three hundred and fifty-eight acres
of land, or thereabout, in Montgomery county,
unto Basil Brooke, William E. George, Israel
Howill, William Thomas, John Dukehart and
Thomas P. Stabler, and the survivors or survivor
of them, in trust for the use of the religious soci-
ety of .Friends, for establishing and carrying on a
school, and for the support of the same for the
education of their children, and for no other use;
and whereas, the said property was granted by the
said Thomas P. Stabler, surviving Trustee, unto
Charles Stabler, George E. Brooke, William John
Thomas, Thomas M. Reese, Edward Jessop and
Richard H. Stabler, and the survivors of them, for
the like uses, by deed dated the twenty-fourth
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-six, recorded among the aforesaid records, in
Liber J. G. St., No. 5, folios forty-five, forty-six
and forty-seven; and whereas, it has been repre-
sented to this General Assembly of Maryland, that
the property aforesaid has been for many years
totally unproductive ; and whereas, at a meeting
for Sufferings, being a meeting of Friends for the
Western Shore of Maryland, and the adjacent
parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia, held in their
church, on Lombard street, in the city of Balti-
more, on the twenty-ninth day of the tenth month
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and sixty-three ; the committee having
charge of the Fair Hill Boarding School property,
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Preamble.
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