1841.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 38.

Passed April 6,
1841.

Name changed.

CHAPTER 37.

An act to change the name of Benedict Arnold, of the
City of Baltimore, to George William Arnold.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the name of Benedict Arnold, of the city of Balti-
more, be, and the same is hereby changed to George Wil-
liam Arnold; and that he shall be, at all times, and in all
respects, entitled to use the name of George William Ar-
nold, as if the same had been given him in baptism.

CHAPTER 38.

Passed April 6,
1841.

An act to authorise the Trustees of the Parsonage in the
Town of Abingdon, in Harford County, to sell said
Parsonage and purchase another.

House and lot
authorised to be
conveyed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That William Alien, William H. Pierce, David
Swaurt, William Thompson, William S. Young, Noah
Webster, Richard Webster, John Hambleton and Benedict
H. Hanson, the present trustees of the house and lot in Ab-
ingdon, Harford county, for the use of the Preachers of the
Methodist Episcopal Church who travel Harford circuit,
incorporated in eighteen hundred and twenty-one, chapter
ninety-one, or a majority of them, be, and they are hereby
authorised to sell and convey said house and lot of land.

May purchase
another.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said trustees or their
successors, as provided for in the aforesaid act, or a majo-
rity of them, are hereby authorised and empowered to
purchase and hold another lot of ground in or near Abing-
don aforesaid, not containing more than two access of land,
and, if necessary, to erect a house thereon for the same
purpose the former house was held.

Exempt from
tax.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said land shall be
exempted from county and State tax.