1852.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 268.

Passed May
26, 1852.

CHAPTER 268.

AN ACT authorising the sale or lease of certain pro-
perty, in the Easternpart of the City of Baltimore,
belonging to the Society of Friends, or people called
Quakers in the said city.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly,
that a part of the lot of ground lying in the east side of
Jones Falls, fronting on Canal, Fayette and Baltimore
streets, vested in John C. Turner, Isaac Tyson, Junior,
William Riley, John Brown and Joseph Matthews, as
trustees, for the purpose of a burial ground, and meet-
ing house, by said society of friends or Quakers, ap-
poinled by the respective meetings, agreeably to the act

of December session eighteen hundred and twenty-one,
is wholly unfit for the object intended, and that the
said society of friends are desirous to sell or lease the
same, and appropriate a portion of the proceeds, first to
enclosing with a substantial wall or fence, that part of
said lot in which interments have been made, and se-
cond, to purchasing and improving another burial
ground out of the limits of the city, and the remaining
portion to repairing the meeting house in old town, and
grounds attached thereto, Therefore,

Authority to
sell.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General, Assembly
of Maryland, That the trustees above named, be, and
they are hereby authorised, to sell, and convey in fee
simple, or lease for ninety-nine years renewable forever,
such part of said lot us is not used for burial purposes,
in such lots, parcels or portions as to said trustees may
seem advisable, and appropriate the proceeds 16 the pur-
poses named in the foregoing preamble.

Rents reserv-
ed on leases.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the trustees above
named, be, and they are hereby authorised, to sell and
convey, the rents reserved on said leases, in case any
leases should be made, and appropriate the proceeds
for the purposes before mentioned.

Inconsistent
acts repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all laws incon-
sistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this act,
be, and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act
shall take effect from and after its passage.