PHILIP P. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

upwards, who shall be members of the congregation of
Saint Peter's Protestant Episcopal church, said mana-
gers to fill up the vacancies which may happen in the
number in the course of the year, and in the event of
the failure of election, from any cause, to hold over un-
til their successors are duly elected, to have the power
to make bye-laws for their own government and that of
the asylum, to employ and fix the duties and compen-
sation of all agents and servants whom they may find
necessary at the asylum, and generally to have and ex-
ercise all powers needful for them in the premises, and
that all corporate powers conferred by this act, other
than those which concern the internal government, and
direction of its affairs, shall be exerciseable by a board
of five trustees, or the major part thereof, to consist of
Messieurs Samuel S. Keyser, Ellis B. Long, Clinton
Levering, William W. Wayman, and William Wood-
ward, and their successors, who shall be authorised from
time to time, to fill all vacancies in their number from

CHAP. 526.

whatever cause, arising; provided always, that nothing
herein contained shall empower them to exercise any
banking privileges, or to issue any note in the nature of
a bank note.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the right is hereby
reserved to the General Assembly to alter, amend or an-
nul this act of incorporation, at its pleasure.

CHAPTER 526.

Right reserved.

An act for relief of Edward Boyer Price, of Balti-
more, heir at law of John Boyer Price, of Cecil
County, deceased.

Passed Mar. 2,
1850.

WHEREAS, it is shown to this General Assembly, that
a certain Lewis Price sold to a certain Alphonsa Money,
a farm in Sassafras neck, Cecil county, called Fryer's
Hill, and executed his deed therefor, dated thirteenth
January, eighteen hundred and seventeen, and that Al-
phonsa Money afterwards sold the same to the said John
Boyer Price, and executed his deed therefor, dated sev-
enteenth April, eighteen hundred and twenty, that, the
said two deeds were never recorded among the land re-
cords of Cecil county, and the acknowledgment of the
last mentioned was certified by only one of the justices be-
fore whom the same was taken, that the said property has

Preamble.