WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1840.

river, shall build the same in front of the shore to which
such wharf may be attached; and shall not, without the con-
sent of the owner of the lands adjoining to that to which
such wharf may be attached, build any part of such wharf
outside of a line drawn from the land of the owner of such
wharf to the channel of said river, at. right angles to said
channel.

CHAPTER 125.

CHAP. 125.

An act to incorporate the Methodist Episcopal Church, in
Frederick.

Passed Feb. 24,
1841.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That David Boyd, Edward Buckey, James
Whitehill, Asbury H. Hunt and Godfrey Koontz, and their
successors, with their, minister or preacher in charge for
the time being, shall be and are hereby created and declar-
ed to be a body politic and corporate, by the name, style
and title of the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church
of Frederick, and by the same name shall have perpetual
succession, to have, hold, enjoy, and be seized and possess-
ed of real, personal and mixed estate, to sell and convey
the same, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any
court of law or equity in this State or elsewhere; to make
and have a common seal, and the same to break, alter or re-
new at pleasure; and also to establish such by-laws and ordi-
nances as shall appear necessary for regulating the tempo-
ral concerns of the said church; provided, the same be not
inconsistent with the laws of this State, or the rules of dis-
cipline which have been, or may be established by the com-
petent and legal authorities of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in Maryland.

Individuals in-
corporated.

Name and style.

General powers.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That whenever any vacancy
shall happen by death, refusal to serve, or expulsion from
membership, according to the discipline and rules of said
church, of any one or more of the said trustees, such va-
cancy shall be filled up in the mode prescribed by the rules
and discipline of the church; provided always, that the per-
son or persons so filling up any vacancy, shall at the time
of being so elected a trustee, be a member in full commu-
nion with the church, and above the age of twenty-one
years.

Vacancy.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all lands and tenements,
with the appurtenances now vested in trustees, or which

Property trans-
ferred.