A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Chester, in Carroll county, and by the same name
shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able
to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in
any court of law or equity in this State or else-
where, and to make and have a common seal, and
the same to break, alter or renew at their plea-
sure, and also .to ordain and establish such by-
laws and ordinances as shall appear necessary
for regulating the temporal concerns of the said
Church.

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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That all the lands and
tenements, with their appurtenances, now vested
in Trustees for the use of the said Congregation,
and all other property of the said Congregation,
shall be and are hereby absolutely and uncondi-
tionally vested in the said body corporate and their
successors for ever, and the said corporation shall
be and they are hereby declared to be capable of
bargaining and selling, leasing and conveying any
part of said property, or any other property which
may hereafter be acquired by the said corporation,
in as full and effectual a manner as any person or
body corporate may or can do.

Property of
Congregation
vested in cor-
poration.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts or deeds
of the said corporation shall be signed by the
Trustees, in behalf of the corporation, and sealed
with their corporate seal, and all deeds by them
for the conveyance of lands and tenements of the
corporation, which by the laws of the State ought
to be acknowledged and recorded, shall be signed
and sealed as aforesaid, and shall also be acknow-
ledged in due form by the Trustees as such, in be-
half of the corporation, and all acts or deeds of the
said body corporate so authenticated shall be valid
and effectual in law.

Deeds, signed
by Trustees,
valid in law.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said corpo-
ration shall be capable of purchasing hereafter real
and personal property not exceeding in value the
sum of twenty thousand dollars.

Corporation
empowered to
purchase real
estate.