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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

die, resign or cease to be members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church; or cease to reside within six miles
of said church or house of worship, then and so often
the trustees for the time being, then surviving and
remaining, or the majority of them are authorised
and required to nominate, elect and choose by ballot
one or more sober and discreet free male white per-
son or persons who shall be twenty one years of age,
resident within six miles of said church or house of
worship, and who shall have been a member of said
church at least six months preceding such election, and
none other,to fill the place of the said trustee or trustees
so dead, resigned or otherwise disqualified as afore-
said, so as to keep up the full number of nine ttrus-
tees for the said church or house of worship the
said persons so elected and chosen from time to time
to continue members of the said corporation or body
politic, until they shall die or resign, or become other-
wise disqualified as hereinbefore provided, and the said
succession shall be forever kept up and perpetuated
in manner and form as above mentioned.

Corporation
invented with
authority.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may
be lawful for the said corporation and their succes-
sors, if they deem it proper to have a common seal
for their use, and the same at their will and pleasure,
to alter, break and make anew; and shall in general
have and exercise such rights, privileges, franchises
and immunities, as by law are incident and necessary
to corporations of this kind, and shall be capable
in law to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded,
answer and be answered unto, defend and be de-
fended in all or any courts of justice, and before all
or any judges, officers or persons whatsoever, in all
actions, matters and things whatsoever.

By what name
known.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said church
or house of worship, shall hereafter be called and
known by the name of the Antioch Church of Prin-
cess Anne, and the said body politic so elected and
to be elected as aforesaid, shall be known and distin-
guished by the title of the trustees of the Antioch
Church of Princess Anne, in the State and county
aforesaid.

Title shall
vest.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the title to the
property of the aforesaid church, shall be vested in
the aforesaid body politic or corporate and their suc-
cessors, in as full and valid a manner as if the board
of trustees named in a deed of conveyance from
John Dennis, dated the first of June, in the year