THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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duty, and they are hereby required, to give bond
severally to the State of Maryland, in the pen-
alty of five thousand dollars each, conditioned
for the faithful performance of their trust as such,
which said bonds shall he approved by the Or-
phans' Court for Carroll county.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That all acts or

parts of acts inconsistent with this act", be and.

Repealed.

the same are hereby repealed.
SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That this act shall in
take effect from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 193.

In force.

AN ACT entitled an act to incorporate the trus-
tees of the Particular Baptist Gunpowder Church
of Carroll county.

Passed March

4, 1858.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assem-
bly, that on the twenty -seventh day of Febru-
ary, seventeen hundred and seventy, a certain
Jonathan Plowman, conveyed to John Davis,
(Pastor,) John Whitaker and Samuel Lane,
Particular Baptists, a parcel of land containing
about fifteen acres, for the sole use of a meeting
house, for the worship of God forever; And
whereas, by the act of eighteen hundred and
twenty-eight, chapter nine, Thomas Layman,
John Perigoy and Benjamin Buckingham, were
incorporated by the name of the Trustees of the
Particular Baptist Church in Baltimore county,
to take charge of the above mentioned property;
And whereas, two of the said Trustees have
died, and the remaining one has removed from
the neighborhood, by reason of which the meet-
ing house has partly fallen down from neglect,
and decay, and the congregation been broken
up; And whereas, the old school, or Particular
Baptist Church, at Black Rock, in Baltimore
county, being the nearest church of the same

Preamble.