T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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last will and testament; and shall have and exercise
such other privileges and powers as may be necessa-
ry to secure the fullest enjoyment of the provisions of
said will, for the benefit of said church.

SBC. 4. And be it enacted, That the executors of
the said last will and testament, and the survivors of
them, or their heirs, be and they are . hereby author-
ised to grant and assign the aforesaid ground-rents,
and all rights vesting in them, under the leases to be
executed as aforesaid, to the said "The Trustees of
the Baptist Church, in the village of Hereford, in
Baltimore county," and their successors, in trust, to
be applied according to the provisions aforesaid of
the said last will and testament.

Authorised to
assign.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 146.

In force.

AN ACT to incorporate the Farmers' and Merchants
Bank of Cecil County.

Passed Mar.
8, 1856.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That a bank to be called and
known by the name of Farmers' and Merchants'
Bank of Cecil county, shall be established at the
town of Elkton in Cecil county, and that as soon
as two thousand shares of the capital stock of said
company shall have been subscribed, the subscrib-
ers thereof, shall and are hereby made a corporation
and body politic under the name and style of Farmers'
and Merchants' Bank of Cecil county, and by that
name shall be and are hereby made capable in law, to
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and
be answered, defend and be defended in any court of
record, or any other place whatever, and also to
make, have and use a common seal, and the same
to break alter and renew at pleasure and to make,
issue and negotiate promissory notes, deal in bills of
exchange, single bills, specie and bullion, and gener-
ally to do and execute all such matters and things as

A Bank to be
established at
Elkton.