402 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and to be designated as Section 11, so that the same shall read
as follows, viz:

SEC. 2. Whereas, David Shields, George Presstman, Alex-
ander McKim, William Wilson and Mathias Maris, incorpora-
tors under the aforesaid Acts of 1798, Chapter 30, are now all
deceased, the following persons, to wit: Richard H. Edmonds,
E. Mitchell Sturtevant, William Edgar Byrd, J. Robert Gould
and James L. Murrill, the duly elected successors of the said
incorporators, together with George Miller and Willis E. Myers,
and their successors, to be chosen as hereinafter set forth, shall
be and are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name,
style and title of "The Committee of the Baptist Church in the
City of Baltimore,'' 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 and renew, at their pleasure, and also to ordain and
establish such by-laws and ordinances as shall appear necessary
for regulating the temporal concerns of said Church, not being
repugnant to this Act, to the laws of the State or of the United
States.

SEC. 3. That the successors of the Committee named in this
Act shall be chosen in the following manner, viz: The members
of the said Church twenty-one years of age and over, may and
shall meet at their meeting house, or such other place in the
City of Baltimore as may be appointed by the said corporation,
on the first Monday in May, or any other Monday of the same
month in the year 1914, and they may and shall continue to
meet in like manner on the first Monday in May, or any Monday
of the same month, every year thereafter, of which meetings
due notice shall always be given, on the forenoon of two several
Sundays next preceding the day of such meeting, at the place
where public worship is usually performed by the said Church,
and there and then they, or so many of them as may attend,
shall elect by ballot, seven lay members of the said Church as
a Committee, who shall continue to act as such for one year, and
until others shall be elected in their room.

SEC. 5. That all lands and tenements with their appurte-
nances now held in trust for the use of said Church or congre-
gation, and all other property of the said Church or congre-
gation, including any and all property, real and personal, which
may hereafter be acquired by it, shall be and hereby are abso-
lutely and unconditionally vested in said corporation and their