Preamble.
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Whereas, the General Assembly of Maryland at De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, chapter
ninety-one, did incorporate the trustees of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, of Harford circuit parsonage, in the
town of Abingdon; and whereas, the dilapidated condition
of said parsonage property, made it necessary to dispose of
it and acquire other; and whereas, the General Assembly of
Maryland, did by enactment on the sixth day of April,
eighteen hundred and forty-one, chapter thirty-eight, au-
thorize the Aforesaid contemplated arrangement; and where-
as, since the act of incorporation above mentioned was
passed important changes have taken place in Harford cir-
cuit, and others arc contemplated, consequent upon which
it has been deemed necessary by the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Harford circuit (having disposed of her old par-
sonage, and trustees thereto) to appoint a new board of
trustees to lake charge of and hold such property as may
be acquired by said circuit as a parsonage; and whereas, on
the twenty-third day of August, eighteen hundred and
forty-one, the quarterly meeting conference of Harford cir-
cuit, did duly elect in accordance with the discipline and
economy of the aforesaid church, William Allen, Benedict
H. Hanson, Richard Webster, Harry D. Gough, Charles
Gorsuch, James N. Henderson, James Stephenson, William
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