1842

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 108.

tent of them, passed at December session, eighteen hundred
and thirty-four, chapter seventy-nine, be and the same is
hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 108.

Passed Feb.
4, 1843.

An act to incorporate the Trustees of the Rock Hall Chapel
in Kent County.

Incorporation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Thomas Harris, George Leary, Samuel
I. Coleman, John T. Smyth, Henry Blackiston, Isaiah Ash-
ley and Philemon Knotts, of Kent county, and their suc-
cessors, be and they are hereby created and declared to
be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of
the Trustees of the Rock Hall Chapel in Kent County.

Succession to
be kept up by
quarterly con-
ference ap-
pointment.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the succession in the
said corporation shall be kept up and maintained by election
or appointment of the quarterly-meeting conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, for Kent circuit, in such
manner and at such period, and for such times as the said
quarterly-meeting conference shall direct, or arrange, and
that the said conference shall have power to fill vacancies
occasioned by death, resignation or removal, or by dismis-
sion of the said conference.

Trustees to
hold lot of
ground for the
church in trust

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said trustees and
their successors, shall have power to take and hold for the
use and benefit of the said Rock Hall Chapel of the Me-
thodist Episcopal Church, the lot of ground which was con-
veyed in trust for the benefit of said church, by Thomas
Harris, on or about the twenty-eight day of May eighteen
hundred and twenty-one, and the church which has been
thereon erected.

l«sue forbid.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act, shall
be so construed as to authorise the said corporation to issue
any note, token, device, scrip or other evidence of debt,
to be used as currency.

To enure for
30 years.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall enure for
thirty years, unless sooner repealed by the General Assem-
bly.