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Authority to
sell tract of
land called
Unity, and to
purchase par-
sonage.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John W. Henry, Wm. Showell,
Samuel H. Jarman, A. J. Fassit, John R. Coard,
George A. Parker, Zadock Marshall, Zadock G. W.
Purnell and R. K. M. Baynum, standing or business
committee of the Presbyterian Congregation of Buck-
ingham Church, in the village of Berlin, in Worcester
county, be, and they are hereby authorised to sell, dis-
pose of and convey, all that part of a tract of land called
Unity, consisting of about twelve acres of land, with
the improvements thereon, situated and being in said
county, which was conveyed by John Hooper, of Wor-
cester county, to Charles R. Henry, James Rackliff,
John S. Spence and others, then standing committee of
said congregation and their successors, to and for the use
of the pastor of said congregation, for the time being,
forever, by deed bearing date the eleventh day of De-
cember eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and recorded
among the land records in the office of the clerk of the
Circuit Court of said county, and with the proceeds of
such sale to purchase, procure or build a parsonage or
place of residence for the resident pastor of said congre-
gation, at some more convenient and eligible situation in
or near to the said village of Berlin, and the property so-
purchased shall be held by the said committee and their
successors, for the same use in like manner, and under
the same trust as the property now authorised to be sold
is held by them.
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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, by an act of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed at December session, eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-one, chapter two hundred and eighty-
one, entitled, an act relating to the people of color
of this State, an appropriation was made to be ap-
plied by the managers mentioned in the said act, in re-
moving emancipated slaves and free people of color,
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