1840.

LAWS OP MARYLAND.

CHAP. 192.

Neck, in Kent county, and by the same name shall have
perpetual succession.

May purchase
20 acres land.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said trustees and
their successors, be and they are hereby authorised and em-
powered to purchase, receive and hold, by deed of con-
veyance, in fee, executed, acknowledged and recorded ac-
cording to law, any lot or parcel of ground lying in Quaker
Neck, in Kent county, not exceeding in quantity twenty
acres, in trust, for the use and benefit of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Quaker Neck, in Kent county.

Conveyance to
be made.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any one surviving trus-
tee of the five trustees of said Quaker Neck Church, to
whom certain property or real estate was conveyed, in trust,
for the use and benefit of said church, by a certain Ann
Thomas, by deed bearing date on or about the twenty-first
day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two,
and duly recorded amongst the land records of Kent county,
be and he is hereby authorised and empowered to convey the
said lot or parcel of ground, with the buildings which are
thereon erected and being, unto the trustees and their suc-
cessors herein incorporated, for the use and benefit of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in Quaker Neck, in Kent
county, and such deed, when acknowledged and recorded
according to law, shall be as valid and effectual as if exe-
cuted and acknowledged by a majority of said trustees.

CHAPTER 192.

Passed Mar. 2,
1841.

An act to locate a School in the Lower District of Caro-
line County, to be called the Fowling Creek School
House.

Commissioners
named.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Jno. Stephens, senior, John Stack, Wil-
liam R. Andrews, John Rumbold and John C. Blades, be
appointed commissioners to locate a school near Fowling
Creek, in Caroline county, and have power to contract for
the building of a good and substantial school house, and
shall be called the Fowling Creek School House.

Cost of build-
ing home: how
paid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That after the completion of
the building of said school house in good workmanlike
manner, the cost and price thereof shall be paid by the or-
phans' court of said county to said commissioners, out of
the surplus school fund belonging to said district; and the