E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

titled, a supplement to an act passed at December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and forty-four, chapter one hun-
dred and twenty-six, entitled, an act authorising the
Methodist Episcopal church in the city and precincts of
Baltimore, to hold certain lands as a burial ground,
which said supplementary act was passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, chapter three
hundred and twenty three, be, and the same is hereby
declared to be so construed as to prohibit the laying out or
opening of any public street, avenue, canal, road, lane,
or alley through the lands, or any part of the lands men-
tioned and described in said section; and that no pub-
lic street, avenue, canal, road, lane, or alley, shall at
any time hereafter be laid out or opened through said
lands or any part thereof.

CHAP. 279.

SEC. 2. And whereas , The trustees of the Methodist
Episcopal church in the city and precincts of Baltimore,
contemplate the purchase of an additional quantity of
land, contiguous to the lands mentioned and described
in the foregoing section, and to be used with said lands
as a cemetery or burial ground :

Preamble.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the additional quanti-
ty of land, when purchased as aforesaid, shall, from and
thereafter, constitute parcel of the cemetery or burial
ground described in said supplementary act, as the

Mount Olivet cemetery; and that the provisions of the
said supplementary act, and of this act, shall extend to
the said additional quantity of land, as fully, and in
like manner as if the same had formed parcel of the

Additional
land to consti-
tute parcel of
Mount Olivet
cemetery.

tract originally purchased; Provided, however, that,
such additional quantity of land to be purchased as
aforesaid, with the lands now held as a cemetery or
burial ground as aforesaid, shall not, together, exceed
the quantity of fifty acres.

CHAPTER 279.

Proviso.

AN ACT to create a new Election District in Fre-
derick county, out of parts of the Creagerstown,
Emmittsburg, and Hauvers Districts, in said
county.

Passed May
27, 1852.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That Frederick White, John Eyler,

and Michael M. Ege, be, and they are hereby autho-

Commission-
ers appointed.