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Passed March
10, 1864.
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AN ACT to incorporate the Trustees of Union
Methodist Episcopal Church, Zion Circuit, Phi-
ladelphia Conference, and to authorize the said
Trustees to take and receive a bequest from
Caleb Reynolds, late of Cecil county.
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Incorporated.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John Grant, John W. Holt,
William F. Miller, Jesse H. Simpers, Benjamin
Miller, Thomas McVey and Thomas Miller, of
Cecil county, and their successors, be and they are
hereby incorporated a body politic and corporate by
the name and style of the Trustees of Union Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, Zion Circuit, Philadelphia
Conference, and by that name shall have power to
have perpetual succession, to have, hold, enjoy and
be seized of real and personal estate, to sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law
or equity, to make and have a common seal, and
the same to alter at pleasure, and to do all other
acts not inconsistent with the Laws of this State,
or the Constitution and Laws of the United States,
as bodies corporate may of right do.
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Government
and manage-
ment.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corpo-
ration shall have power to make and ordain such
by-laws and rules for the perpetuation of their
succession, and for the government and manage-
ment of the secular affairs of the said Church and
the property thereof, as may to them seem just
and right, and such by-laws when duly made by a
majority of the said Trustees, if not inconsistent
with the Laws of the State or United States, shall
have the same force and effect as if they were a
part of this act.
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