300

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

for many years been Used as a public side walk
and road, and couldnot now be occupied by Trus-
tees of said church to enlarge their building with-
out public inconvenience, and it being desirable to
thersaid Trustees and the members of said church
and congregation to have sufficient . additional
ground on which to enlarge said church, and that
the additional ground needed may be laid off from
the adjoining public ground on Market Space with-
out public detriment; therefore,

Appointment
of Commission-
ers.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, .That Richard Hynson, Henry W.
Earnest, Richard Smyth, Jessee K. Hines and
Benjamin B. Perkins, or a majority of them, be
and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to
lay off such additional grounds on Market Space
contiguous to the Methodist Episcopal Church, as
will make, with ground on which the said church
now stands, a lot sixty feet long from northeast to
southwest, and sixty feet wide from northwest to
southeast, on the northeast of the pavement that
now runs from the market house by the said church,
and to return a certificate therefor under their
hands and seals to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Kent county, who is hereby to record the same
among the land records of said county.

Ground to be
taken posses-
sion of.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said
ground, when it shall be laid off, and a certificate
thereof returned as aforesaid, shall and may im-
mediately thereafter be taken possession of by
Thomas W. Eliason, John N. Usilton, Alfred M.
Russell, William Couger and Samuel A. Smith,
Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in
Chestertown, for the purpose of enlarging the said
church and enclosing the same; and the said Trus-
tees and their successors shall, as Trustees, have
and hold the said lands for the Methodist Episco-
pal Church in Chestertown, with all the rights
and privileges that were granted by the original
act to which this is a supplement, and by previous
supplements thereto.