THEODORE E. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1285

Church property shall have an estate in fee simple in all
churches, chapels and in all glebes and other lands, and
shall have a good title and estate in all other property now
or hereafter belonging to the Parish or Separate Congre-
gation; and it shall be lawful for such Vestry so to manage
and direct all such property as they may think most advan-
tageous to the interest of the Parishioners; and they shall
also have the property in all books and other ornaments
belonging to the said churches and chapels, or any of them.

291K. In his use of the property of the Parish or
Separate Congregation as above provided, the Rector shall
conform to the requirements of the Canons of the Diocese
in which his Parish or Cure shall be. And for failure, if
any, of such compliance he shall be responsible as if a
member of the Vestry holding the title to said property.

291L. After their election on Easter Monday, or as
soon thereafter as possible, or thereafter as provided, the
Vestrymen so elected shall organize by choosing a majority
vote from the persons qualified to vote two discreet and
pious persons to be Churchwardens for the ensuing year,
and before the latter shall act as such they shall make the
declaration hereinbefore prescribed to be made by Vestry-
men and that they will faithfully discharge the duties of
a Churchwarden. But nevertheless any Parish in the four-
Counties of Montgomery, Prince George's Charles and St.
Mary's, within the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Diocese of Washington, now existing or
hereinafter organized, is hereby authorized by a vote of
the majority of its qualified voters at any Parish meeting
to provide(a) that the Wardens of such Parish may be
elected in the same manner as Vestrymen and be members

of the Vestry; (b) that residence within the limits of the

Parish shall no longer be prescribe as qualification for
voting at Parish elections or other meetings of the Parish,
or for holding office therein; (c) the Vestries of such
Parishes in said Counties may fix the time for the annual
Parish meeting at a date other than Easter Monday.

291M. Churchwardens shall have power to preserve
order and decency in their respective Churches or Chapels
and if reasonably necessary to do so, it shall be lawful for
a Churchwarden to exclude any person guilty of any
breach of the peace or of any disorderly conduct or mak-
ing any unnecessary and unseemly noise in any Church
or Chapel yard or other enclosure so as to disturb the
congregation, arid to turn such person out of the Church
or Chapel or other enclosure thereto belonging; and it shall