LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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or resign, or by any other means vacate his office, whereby the period
within which the said deed, or other instrument of writing, ought to
have been recorded, shall expire during such vacancy, it shall be the
duty of the next succeeding clerk, by a special endorsement on the
said deed, or other instrument of writing, to state the day on which
the vacancy occurred, by the death or resignation of the preceding
clerk, or other cause, and the day on which the clerk for the time
being, commenced the duties of his office, and to record the same
deed, or other instrument, in the manner required by law; and all
such deeds, or other instruments brought to the said office to be re-
corded during the first ten days after the clerk for the time being
shall have commenced the duties of his office, shall, when recorded
have the same force and effect, as if recorded in the time limited by
law.

Dec. Ses. 1823

CHAPTER 105.

An act to incorporate a benevolent society in the town of Hagers Town.
Whereas application hath been made to this General Assembly
for an act of incorporation, in behalf of the Society of the United
Brethren in Christ, in Hagers Town, which may enable them to
manage with convenience their concerns;

Passed Jan.
14, 1823.
Preamble.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the present trustees of said society, viz. John Cronise, Valen-
tine Daub, Andrew Newcomer, George Marteney, Jacob Winger,
Jacob Brazier and Samuel Huber, and their successors, to be elected
agreeably to the rules and regulations of said society, shall be, and
they are hereby declared to be one community, corporation and body
politic, by the name of the Trustees of the Benevolent Society of the
United Brethren in Christ, in Hagers Town, and by the same name
shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued,
implead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity in this state
or elsewhere, and to make and have a common seal, and the same
to alter or renew at their pleasure, and. also to ordain and establish
such by-laws and ordinances as shall appear necessary for regulating
the concern? of said society, not being repugnant to the constitution
and laws of this state and of the United States.

Incorpora-
tion.

2. And be it enacted, That the objects of said corporation are here-
by declared to be the raising a fund by donation and annual sub-
scription, for the support of the travelling and superannuated, and
other indigent preachers of said society; for which purposes, the said
society shall be capable in law, at all times to purchase, take, have,
hold and possess, to them and their successors in fee, or otherwise,
any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, chattels, bank stock, or public
securities, by the bargain and sale, gift, grant, devise or bequest of
any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable in law to
make the same, and the same at their pleasure to alien, sell, transfer
or lease, in such manner as they may judge most conducive to the

Object and
powers.

benevolent purposes of said society; Provided, That the said society
shall not at any one time hold real personal, or mixed property exceed-
in all, the yearly value of three thousand dollars.

Proviso.

3. And be it enacted, That all acts or deeds of said society, shall
be signed by the president of the said trustees, and sealed with their
corporate seal, and all deeds by them for the conveyance of lands and
tenements of the society, which by the laws of this state ought to be
acknowledged and recorded, shall be signed and sealed as aforesaid,
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Acts con-
firmed.