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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, application hath been made to this
General Assembly for an act of incorporation in
behalf of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Port
Deposit, in Cecil county, which may enable said
Church to manage with convenience her temporal
concerns, and to make valid the acts and proceed-
ings of the Trustees of said Church ;
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Trustees ap-
pointed, with
power to sue.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Elijah Reynolds, E. D. Mc-
Clenahan, James A. Davis, Daniel Vauneman,
Theodore J. Vauneman, Thomas C. Bond and
Wesley W. Nichols, and their successors, chosen
as hereinafter provided for, shall be and are iere-
by created a body corporate and politic, by the
name, style and title of the Trustees of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, in Port Deposit, and by
the same name shall have perpetual succession, to
have, hold, enjoy and be seized and possessed of
real and personal and mixed estate, to sue and be
sued, implead and be impleaded in any court of
law or equity in this State or elsewhere, to make
and have a common seal, and the same to break,
alter or renew at pleasure, and also to do all such
other acts and things as corporate bodies may of
right do, not inconsistent with the laws of this
State, or with the Constitution and Laws of the
United States, or the discipline of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
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Powers and
duties of.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Trus-
tees hereby incorporated shall have power to
make and ordain such by-laws as they may find
necessary for the better management of the pro-
perty held or to be held by them in trust, or for
the regulations of the religious services held or to
be held in the building or Church edifice, and the
due preservation of order and decorum therein
during the hour of divine worship, and at all
other times, and such by-laws, when duly made
and ordained by a majority of the said Trustees, if
not inconsistent with this act of incorporation,
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