1843,

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 279.

capias act respondendum issued out of any county court
of this State, and the said defendant, so being arrested,
shall apply for the benefit of the insolvent laws and there-
upon obtain his personal discharge, ihe said defendant
shall be obliged to execute a warrant of attorney to some
attorney of the court out of which such capias act respon-
dendum issued to appear for him to the case, wherein said
capias act respondendum issued, and if said defendant shall
refuse to execute such warrant of attorney, the sheriff
shall be authorised to detain said defendant and to bring
him into court according to said capias act respondendum,
notwithstanding said personal discharge.

Passed March
8, 1844.

Preamble.

CHAPTER 279.

An act entitted, an act to appoint Trustees for a certain
Church'in Baltimore county, called Friendship.
Whereas, by a certain deed of conveyance bearing
date the twentieth day of May eighteen hundred and
twenty-six, made and executed hy a certain Thomas
Slade, of Baltimore county, and State of Maryland, (since
dead,) to John Wiese, Christopher Bull, Ambrose Bull,
Joseph Pearce and Nicholos Bull, all of the county and
State aforesaid, as trustees a certain piece or parcel of
ground, lying and being in the county and State afore-
said, for the purpose of erecting a house of wjrship or
school house thereon, for the benefit and accommodation
of the public, and fiee for all denominations of religious
associations for the purpose of holding religious worship;
And whereas, since the aforegoing date belore mention-
ed three of the before mentioned trustees have departed
this life to wit: John Wiese, Christopher Bull and Joseph
Pearce, and left the board of trustees without a quorum to
transact the business of the institutions or church which
is called and known by the name of Friendship Meet-
ing House in the vicinty of Wiseburgh—Therefore,

Trustees.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act, it
shall be lawful for the purpose of perpetuating the afore-
going described piece or parcel of ground with the im-
provements thereon, as a place of public worship or
school as the case may be, that William Rowe, Thomas
Hunter and George Little, be and the same are hereby
appointed trustees in conjunction with the said Ambrose
Bull and Nicholas Bull, senior, two of the surviving ori-