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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, a certain H. F. Zollicoffer, of Carroll
county, and Mary Jane Zollicoffer, his wife, by their
deed bearing date the twenty-seventh day of Septem-
ber, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and
duly recorded among the land records of said coun-
ty in Liber I. B. B. No. 14, folios 519, &c., con-
veyed a certain parcel or lot of land therein de-
scribed unto John Smith of Jno., William Roberts,
Alfred Zollicoffer, John Smith of Joshua, and Sam-
uel McKinstry, and their successors in office, to be
held in trust as follows, to wit: for the benefit of
the Pipe Creek Circuit, in the Maryland District of
the Methodist Protestant Church, to be used as a
Parsonage or place of residence for the minister or
ministers who may from time to time be appointed
to the said circuit, by the Maryland Annual Con-
ference; and in further trust to lease the office sit-
uate on said parcel of land to the best advantage,
and appropriate the rents to repairing the trust
property; and in further trust to sell at the discre-
tion of the quarterly conference of the said Pipe
Creek Circuit, the unimproved part of the said par-
cel or lot of land, and pay the proceeds of sale to
the said quarterly conference; and lastly, in trust,
if the said parsonage should be rendered unneces-
sary by reason of the extinction of said circuit, to
convey the said parcel or lot of land, or the part
thereof remaining unsold, to the said Maryland
Annual Conference, or to such agent as they may
designate, to be disposed of at their discretion for
the benefit of such other circuit or circuits as they
may elect; and whereas, if any of the said trus-
tees die, resign, refuse to act, remove, or become
separated from the said circuit, it is by the said
deed made the duty of the remaining trustees to
give notice thereof to the said quarterly conference;
and the said quarterly conference is thereupon re-
quired to appoint a successor to fill the vacancy,
always taking care that three of the trustees shall
belong to the congregation worshiping in the
meeting-house of the Methodist Protestant Church,
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