ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 233
CHAPTER 119.

AN ACT to amend the Charter and enlarge the powers and
privileges of the Centre Street Methodist Episcopal Church
of Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, incorporated
by Chapter 199 of the Acts of Assembly of 1884, entitled
"An Act to repeal the Act of incorporation of the trustees
of the property of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the
town of Cumberland, Allegany County, passed and recorded
among the Land Records of Allegany County, Maryland,
January twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-one in
Liber H. B. Number six, folio five hundred and fifty-one,
and re-enact the same with amendments. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 3 of the Act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, of 1884, Chapter 199, incorporating Jesse Korns,
Levi R. Fechtig, Charles W. Brengle, William Weber, Valen-
tine A. Buckey, John H. Young, William M. Rice, William
Wickard and Jacob Shuck, and their successors in office, by
the name and style of Centre Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, of Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, be and
the same is hereby amended by striking out the provision con-
tained in Section 3 of said Act of 1884, Chapter 199, limit-
ing the amount of property to be held by said corporation to
one hundred thousand dollars in value, and in lieu thereof
extending the powers and privileges of said corporation to
holding property not exceeding three hundred thousand dol-
lars in value, said section when amended to read as follows:

3. The corporation hereby created shall be able and cap-
able in law to have, hold and purchase, receive, possess, en-
joy and retain to them and their successors in office any
estate or interest whatever, and not to exceed the sum of
three hundred thousand dollars in property, real, personal
and mixed, by deed, assignment, clevises, bequests or other
mode of conveyance, or transfer of or from legal capability
to make such transfer or conveyance, and the same to im-
prove with such churches, parsonages and buildings for the
use of the congregations for public or other worship, and
for residences for the pastors of said congregations not in-
consistent with the discipline of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in the United States; and to sell, rent, mortgage and
convey all or any part of any property belonging to or that