ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR, NOVEMBER,

CHAP. LIII.

1806.

An ACT for the benefit of the congregation of Salem's church, in
Washington county.

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1807.

WHEREAS certain lands and tenements have been heretofore conveyed by a certain Peter
Rench, late of Frederick, now Washington county, deceased, in trust for the benefit of the
presbyterian meeting-house, now incorporated and known by the name of Salem's Church, and by
reason of the death of the trustees, and other causes, doubts have arisen as to the validity of the
title to said property; therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all lands, tenements and heredita-
ments, goods, chattels, and other property, which have heretofore been conveyed to any person or
persons, or which is now held by any person or persons, in trust for the benefit and 'use of the
congregation of Salem's church, in Washington county, or by whatsoever name it may be called,
shall be and the same is hereby vested in Martin Kershner, Jacob Zeller, John Hager and Philip
Kershner, present trustees of the said church, and the successors of the said trustees, appointed
according to the constitution, rules and ordinances, of the said congregation.

Lands, &c.
vested, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, their successors, or a majority of them, shall
have full power and authority to sell, lease, or otherwise convey, any part of the lands, tenements,
hereditaments, goods, chattels or other property, hereby declared to be vested in the said congre-
gation, or which shall hereafter be vested in the same, except two acres of said land, which two
acres shall include within their bounds the church, and burial-ground attached to the same, in such
manner, and for such estate therein, as conveyances may be made by any individual for any like
property; provided, that no sale, lease, or other disposition of the said property, or any part there-
pf, shall be valid, unless the same shall be made with the consent and approbation of a majority of
the trustees of the said congregation, agreeably to the rules and constitution of said church.

Trustees em-
powered to sell,
&c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised
and directed to appropriate the monies arising from any sale or sales which may be made by them by
virtue of the provisions of this act, either to the building of a new church, or to the repair of the old
one, or to any other purpose relative to the said congregation, which they, or a majority of them,
shall deem right and proper.

CHAP. LIV.

And appropri-
ate monies, &c.

An ACT to lay out and open a certain road in Caecil county.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of
Caecil county, that the convenience of the public will be greatly promoted by streightening
and amending the private road, now opened and used, leading from that part of Stone Run where a
public road from the stare of Pennsylvania to the tide water of the Chesapeake crosses said run, at
or near the Octorara creek, until it intersects the public road leading from Christiana to the Bald
Friar ferry, on Susquehanna river, and by making the same a public road; therefore,

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1807.
Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That William Johnson, Robert Porter
and James Maxwell, be, and they, or a majority of them, are hereby appointed commissioners to
survey, lay out and mark, a road, not exceeding thirty feet in width, in the streightest and best di-
rection that the nature of the ground will admit of, from that part of Stone Run where the public
road aforesaid crosses said run, until it intersects the public road leading from Christiana to the
Bald Friar ferry aforesaid, at that point where the private road aforesaid intersects the same, and
estimate and value the damages sustained by any person or persons through whose land the said road
shall pass, taking into estimation the advantages and disadvantages, if any, and a certificate of the
same, when so ascertained, together with a certificate of the survey of said road, under their hands,
or a majority of them, shall return to the clerk of Caecil county, to be by him recorded, and shall
or ever thereafter be deemed and taken to be a public highway, and kept in repairs as other public
roads in said county.

Commissioners
appointed, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of Caecil county be and they are hereby autho-
rised and required, at the time of laying the next levy in said county, if the said court should be of
opinion that the said road would be of public benefit and utility, to levy, on the assessable property
of the county aforesaid, the sum necessary to clear and make said road passable, also the amount of
damages so ascertained and certified as aforesaid, together with a reasonable compensation for the

Court to levy
money, &c.