DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1828

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That Thomas Layman, John Perigoy and Benja-
min Buckingham, and their successors, to be elected agreea-
bly to the rules and regulations of said church, shall be, and
hereby are created and declared to be, a body politic and
corporate, by the name, style and title, of The Trustees of
the ParticularBaptist Gunpowder Church, in Baltimore coun-
ty, 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 elsewhere,
and to make and have a common seal, and the same to break,
alter or renew, at their pleasure; and also to ordain and es-
tablish such by-laws and ordinances as shall appear necessa-
ry for regulating the temporal concerns of the said church,
and for promoting literature within the same, not being re-
pugnant to this act, or the laws of this state.

CHAP. 9.

Trustees incorpo-

rated

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That all the lands and tene-
ments, with their appurtenances, now vested in trustees for
the use of the said church, and all other property of said
church, shall be and are hereby absolutely and uncondition-
ally 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 the said property, or any
other property which may be, which by the constitution
and laws of this state, may be acquired and held by any re-
ligious society.

Lands, &c vested

in body corporate

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 any lands and tene-
ments of the corporation, which by the laws of the land
ought to be acknowledged and recorded, shall be signed and
sealed as aforesaid, and shall also be acknowledged in due
form by the trustees, as such, in behalf of the corporation;
and all such acts or deeds of the said body corporate, so au-
thenticated, shall be valid and effectual in law.

Deeds of incorpo-

ration to be sign-

ed by trustees, &c

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall
be capable of purchasing hereafter, real and personal pro-

perty, not exceeding in value the sum of three thousand
dollars.

May purcahse pro-

perty

CHAP. X.

Aft Act for the benefit of John Morris, alias John Mor-
rison, of Baltimore County.

Passed Jan. 22,1829

WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, that a cer-
tain John Morris, alias John Morrison, on the fourteenth
day of September seventeen hundred and eighty-five, pur-
chased of Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, the intendant of

Preamble.