SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1824

Trustee to
convey.

CHAPTER 23.
An act authorising the County Court of Calvert County, to act in the case
therein mentioned.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall and may be lawful for the county court of Calvert
county, upon the petition of Thomas C. Gantt, of the said count)-,
to appoint a trustee to convey the right, title and interest of the in-
fant children of Sarah Beall, lately deceased, in and to that parcel of
land, lying and being in Calvert county, which the said Sarah Beall,
and her husband John H. Beall, covenanted and agreed to, and
with the said Thomas C. Gantt, to convey to the said Thomas C.

Proviso.

Gantt: Provided, the said Gantt, shall execute a deed to said in-
fant children, conveying to them, the lands covenanted by him to
be conveyed, in exchange therefor to the said Sarah Beall, and fur-
ther that the said court shall be satisfied, that it will be to and for
the interest of the said minors, that the said agreement for an ex-
change shall be carried into execution.

Deed.

2. And be it enacted, That if the court shall deem it inconsis-
tent with the interest of the said minors, that the said agreement
shall be performed, and appoint a trustee as provided for in the
preceding section, the deed intended to be executed by the said
trustee, when executed shall vest in the said Thomas C. Gantt, and
his heirs, all the right, title and estate of the said minors, in and
to the said lands which descended to them upon the death of their
mother, in the same manner as if the said John H. Beall and Sarah
Beall, his wife, in her lifetime had executed a deed of bargain and
sale for the same, according to the provisions of the act of assem-
bly in such cases made and provided.

Passed Jan.
13, 1825.

Incorporation.

CHAPTER 24.

An act to incorporate the Union Fire Company of Middletown in Frederick
County.
Sec. 1. Re it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Adam Herring, Jacob Alexander, Michael Beckenbaugh, Jacob
Routzeng, Jacob Herring, Lewis Creager, Aaron Suman, Henry
Herring, Michael Keller, Casper Herring, Jacob Coblentz, F.
Richmond, D. Smith, Benjamin Routzahn, jun. William C. Keller,
Barnard Whip, Peter Young, D. Bowlus, Jacob Critzer, H. G.
O'neal, Jacob Hoffman, Frederick Stembell, and such other per-
sons as now are, or hereafter may become members of said compa-
ny, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be one community,
corporation and body politic forever hereafter by the name and
style of the Union Fire Company of Middletown; the object of
which company is hereby declared to be, the protection of the pro-
perty of the citizens of Middletown from destruction by fire; for
which purpose they are hereby made able and capable in law, to
have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain to them and their
successors, lands, tenements, rents, annuities or other heredita-
ments, and the same to grant, demise, alien or dispose of in such
manner as they may judge most conducive to the interest of the
company; Provided nevertheless, That the said corporation or body
politic, shall not at any time, hold or possess property, real, personal
or mixed, exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars per annum