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Whereas, the Reverend Alexander Czvilkovicz, the
Reverend Simon Senderl, the Reverend Tscharkert and the
Reverend Louis Karteyvebs, by their petition to this Gene-
ral Assembly, have set forth that they have emigrated to
and settled in the city of Baltimore, in this State, and that
each of them hath already declared his intention to become
a citizen of the United States, before a court of competent
jurisdiction; that they have formed themselves into a society
by the name of the Redemptorists, for religious, literary
and charitable purposes, and have purchased in fee simple,
a lot of ground on the east side of Aisquith street, in the
city of Baltimore, near Saint James' church, upon which
they propose to erect suitable buildings for the residence of
themselves and their assistants, and for a school; and that
they propose, when their means will permit, to extend their
society by similar improvements in some other part of the
city or State, and to apply their means, so far as may be
possible, to gratuitous education; and they have prayed an
act of incorporation for the more convenient holding and
transmission of their property, which being reasonable,
and in accordance with the previous policy of this State, —
therefore,
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Preamble.
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