1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 336.

How repaired.

Proviso.

court, to be by him recorded, which landing and road shall
forever hereafter, be deemed and taken as a public landing
and road, and shall be kept up and repaired as other pub-
lic landings and roads in said county are; provided, that
nothing herein contained shall in any manner authorise the
said commissioners to lay out the said landing and road
through the buildings, orchard, garden or yard of any per-
son or persons without his or her consent.

To ascertain
damages.

How paid.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid commis-
sioners, or a majority of them, shall ascertain the amount
of damages which any person or persons may sustain by
the laying out and marking and condemning said lot of
ground and road, which amount they shall return to the
commissioners or levy court, of Talbot county, who are
hereby authorised and directed to levy upon the assessable
property of said county, a sum sufficient to cover all such
damages, and pay the same to the person or persons en-

Commissioners
compensation.

titled thereto, including two dollars each, for every day said
commissioners shall attend in the discharge of the duties
enjoined upon them by this act.

CHAPTER 336.

Passed Mar. 19,
1840.

An act to incorporate the Trustees for the Parsonage of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, for Kent Circuit, in the
State of Maryland, and for other purposes.

Individuals in-
corporated.

Name and style.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Benjamin Price, Edward Ringgold, Tho-
mas Stephens, James Hepbron, Thomas Baker, Arthur
M. Merritt and Nathaniel Wiley, of Kent county, and their
successors, be and they are hereby created and declared to
be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of
the Trustees for the Parsonage Property of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, for Kent Circuit, in the State of Maryland.

To maintain
succession.

Vacancies.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the succession in the
said corporation shall be kept up and maintained by elec-
tion 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, fit or arrange;
and that the said conference shall have power to fill vacan-
cies occasioned by death, resignation or removal, or by
dismission of the said conference.