598 LAWS OP MARYLAND. [CH. 349
and to change the corporate name of said Church from
'' The Committee of the Presbyterian Church at Manokin,
in Somerset County," to "The Committee of the Manokin
Presbyterian Church, at Princess Anne, Maryland.''
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1830, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Presby-
terian Church at Manokin, in Somerset County," be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to
read as follows:
SEC. 2. And be it enacted by to General Assembly of Mary-
land, That whereas Samuel Kerr, William Stewart, Robert Pat-
terson, George Handy, Henry P. C. Wilson, William W.
Handy and John S. Wilson, incorporators under the aforesaid
Act of 1830, Chapter 94, are now all deceased, that the follow-
ing named persons, Wilmer O. Lahkford, Joshua W. Miles,
Z. James Dougherty, Charles W. Wainwright, E. Herrman
Cohn, Columbus Lankford, Sydney C. Long, Robert F. Mad-
dox, Earle B. Polk and H. Fillmore Lankford, the duly elected
successors of said incorporators, with their successors elected as
hereinafter set forth, with their minister for the time being,
shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate by the
name, style and title of "The Committee of the Manokin
Presbyterian Church, at Princess Anne, Maryland," and by
that 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 elsewhere, and to make and
have a common seal, the same to break, alter and renew at their
pleasure, and also ordain and establish such by-laws and
ordinances as shall appear necessary for regulating the cor-
porate concerns of said Church, and for promoting religion
within the same, not being repugnant to this Act nor to the
laws of this State.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the successors of the pres-
ent members of "The Committee of the Manokin Presbyterian
Church, at Princess Anne, Maryland," herein named shall
be elected in the following manner, to wit: The members of
said Church, and other members of the congregation twenty-
one years of age who contribute to the support of said Church,
may and shall meet at the Church on the first Sunday in June,
nineteen hundred and twenty, and elect a Committee of six.
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