1847.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 323.

fifteenth day of December in the year eighteen hundred
and forty, by Philip Wallis and wife of the city of Bal-
timore, for a house and lot in the town aforesaid, intended
to be appropriated as a Parsonage for the residence of
the incumbent minister of said church in said town or
county, and duly enrolled in liber J. P., number C., fifty-
five, folios four hundred and eighty nine and so forth, was

defective for the want of the certificate of the clerk of
Baltimore county court, that the justices of the peace
who took the acknowledgment of the said deed were
such at the time of said acknowledgment,, and thai
Philip Wallis has since departed this life, and therein
praying that an act of Assembly might he passed con-
firming and making valid said deed, notwithstanding the
defect aforesaid, and also that one of three of the said
petitioners or any other persons might be authorised
and empowered to execute a deed for said house and lot
for the purpose aforesaid, to nine trustees appointed un-
der the discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Churchy
and their successors — Therefore,

Made valid.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the deed herein mentioned be and is
hereby confirmed and made valid, the want of the certi-
ficate of the clerk of Baltimore county court to the
contrary notwithstanding.

To execute a
conveyance.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That Ennalls Roszell,
Perry W. Stewart, Samuel B. Hopkins, Jonathan Oz-
ment and James H. McNeall, be and are hereby autho-
rised and empowered to execute a deed to the trustees
hereinafter mentioned and their successors, conveying,
the house and lot herein also mentioned, for the purpose
herein declared, and that the same shall be effectual to-

convey all the right and title of the petitioners and
Nicholas G. Singleton, John W. Bell and John Talbot,
of, in and to the said house and lot, and to vest at full
and valid title to the same in Henry E. Bateman, John
Rowins, William B. Willis, William Ozman, Nehemiah
E. Nicholls, William N. Mulliken, Alexander Dodd,
Walter H. Thompson and John F. Chaplain, trustees
and their successors, for the use and benefit of the Eas-
ton Circuit in Talbot county, the said trustees being ap-
pointed agreeably to the discipline of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.