1326 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 641

corner stone, standing about eighty-seven perches distant on a
south course. from the street line and fifty-three perches dis-
tant from the northeast corner of Brick Meeting House (so
called), on a course northeast by north, and thence, by the
land of John Day (now land of the Rosebank Cemetery and
Henry C. Thompson), south four degrees east, eighty perches
to a stone, thence by the land of Elisha Hughes (now land
of C. England and others) north eighty-nine degrees west
eighty-two perches to a post, thence by the land of John White
(now land of Iva McKinney and Mabel Ewing) north two
degrees west eighty perches to a post, thence by the land of
the said White and the aforesaid John Day, respectively (now
land of William Hambleton) south eighty-nine degrees east,
eighty perches to the beginning, containing forty acres;

AND WHEREAS, In accordance with the Act of Assembly of

Maryland, in such case made and provided for the formation
of religious corporations, a corporation was formed, on the
11th day of January, 1811, under the corporate name of "The
Corporation of Trustees for the Brick Meeting House Lot, in
East Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland, " which will ap-
pear from the Article of Incorporation, recorded on the 6th
day of April, 1811, in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Cecil County aforesaid, to which said corporation
the said forty acres of land passed and by which corporation

the said parcel of land has, continuously, been held since the
said 6th day of April, 1811, for the purposes of a meeting
house for religious worship for the Society of People, called
Quakers, and for a burial ground for. said Society of People;

AND WHEREAS, The said corporation finds that said forty
acres of land are more than are needed for a meeting house,
and burial ground as aforesaid and the School Commissioners
of said Cecil County desire to purchase or lease a portion of
said forty acres of land with the intention of erecting thereon
a building or buildings for school or. educational purposes,
which intention if carried into effect the trustees of the said
corporation believe would be for the public good; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That power and authority are hereby given and granted
to the said "The Corporation of Trustees for the Brick Meeting
House Lot, in East Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland, " to
lease, upon such terms as the Trustees of said Corporation may
deem advisable, for a term or for terms of years, such parts
or portions of said forty acres of land as, in the judgment of