ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE,- GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.
CHAP. XLV.

1803.

A Supplement to the act entitled, An act to authorise the building
of a protestant episcopal church within the city of Baltimore, by
the name of Saint-Peter's Church, and for other purposes passed
November session, eighteen hundred and two.

Passed 7th of
January, 1804,

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Jeremiah Yellott, John Scott, William
olley, Hezekiah Waters, Josias Pennington, Simon Wilmer, of Edward, and James Carrie, of
city of Baltimore, trustees appointed in the original law to which this is a supplement, for the
of: building a protestant episcopal church within the city of Baltimore, and the survivors or
survivors of them, are hereby authorised and- empowered to solicit and receive donations and sub-
scriptions, not exceeding five thousand dollars, in addition to the sum authorised by the original law,
the purpose of completing the said church, and a parsonage- house built adjacent thereto, and the
purchase of a burial-ground.

Trustees'may
solicit donati-
ons, &c.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the right of disposing of the pews in the said church, and of re-
the money for the same, shall be and remain in the said Jeremiah Yellott, John Scott, Wil-
olley, Hezekiah Waters, Josias Permington, Simon Wilmer, of Edward, and James Come,
survivors or survivor of them, until all debts which they may contract, and all suras of
ey which they may advance for the building of the said church and parsonage-house, and the
purchase or leasing of the lot or lots of land which they are authorised to purchase, shall be fully
paid and satisfied, even although the lot of land on which the said church is built shall be by them
conveyed and assigned to the vestry who may be elected for the said church.

Right to re-
main, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the vestry of the said church for the time being may impose such
annual rent on each and every pew in the said church for the support of the minister of the said
church, and for other incidental expences, as they may think proper; provided always, that the said
vestry shall not impose such rent or charge on any pew before the same shall be sold by the said
trustees, or all debts by them contracted, and sums of money by them advanced for the purposes
aforesaid, shall be paid and discharged.

Vestry may im-
pose a rent, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the vestry of the said church shall not appoint or agree with a
minister to officiate in the said church for a longer time than one year, but they may re-elect or re-
appoint the same minister from time to time.

Not to agree
for more than
a year, &c.

V, AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, or a majority of them, shall regulate and de-
termine every thing relative to the disposition of the pews, except as to the annual rent or charge
of the same.

Trustees to re-
gulate, &c.

VI. AND, whereas by the eighth section of the original law it is enacted, that the said Jeremiah
Yellott, John Scott, William Jolley, Hezekiah Waters, Josias Pennington, Simon Wilmer, of Ed-
ward, and James Corrie, and the survivors and survivor of them, shall convey the lot and lots of
land which they may have purchased to the vestry of the said church in fee-simple, and the said
trustees have only a lease-hold interest in the lot whereon the said church is built; BE IT ENACTED,
That the said trustees, and the survivors or survivor of them, shall convey to the said vestry such
interest only in the said lot or lots purchased, or to be purchased, which they may have at the time
of their conveyance to the said vestry, be the same in fee or a lease-hold interest.

And convey to
the vestry, &c

VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the first vestry which shall be elected for the said church shall
be elected and considered the vestry of the said church until the Easter Monday in the year eighteen
hundred and five.

First vestry to
continue till
1805,

VIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said trustees do not purchase or lease a lot of land for
a burial-ground before the powers vested in them shall cease, any vestry of the said church may
purchase, in fee or for a lesser estate, a lot of land, either within or without the city of Baltimore

not exceeding two acres, for a burial-ground to the said church.

Any vestry
may purchase
&c.

IX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said trustees shall purchase a lot of land for a burial-
ground, that they shall not be obliged to convey the same to the vestry of the said church until the
same shall be .paid for, and all sums of money by them paid, or contracted to be paid, for the same,
shall be discharged.

Trustees not
obliged to con-
vey &c.