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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

DEC. SESS.
1813.

one or more creditable witness or witnesses, or by his
or their confession, shall forfeit and par the sum of sixty
dollars for every such offence; one moiety of which sum
so forfeited to be paid to the informer or prosecutor, and
the other moiety thereof to be paid to the sheriff of the
county where the recovery shall be had, to be by him ac-
counted for to the justices of the levy court, of such coun-
ty, and by them applied towards defraying the county
charges.

Repugnant

acts repealed.

3. AND BE IT EN ACTED, That all such parts of
the act to which this is a supplement, as are inconsistent
with the provisions of this act, be and are hereby re-
pealed.

Passed Jan.

24, 1814.

Preamble.

CHAPTER 92.

An act to incorporate the trustees of the Jerusalem
Church in Frederick county.
WHEREAS, sundry inhabitants of Frederick and
Baltimore counties have by their petition set forth that
they have purchased a lot of ground and have erected
theron a house for public worship, and pray for an act
of incorporation for the regulation and organization of
said house of worship, and it appearing reasonable that
the prayer of said petition be granted: Therefore,

Trustees in-

corporated. —
Succession.

Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That George Eberhart, George
Matthias, Jacob Bixter, William Winkle, Henry Ware-
ham and Adam Bisk,from and immediately after the pass
ing of this act, shall be, and they are hereby created a
body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the
name, style and title of the trustees of the Jerusalem
Church, and that they, the said trustees, by the name
aforesaid, and their successors, to be elected as hereinaf-
ter mentioned, shall have a perpetual succession, and
shall be able and capable in law to purchase, take, have,
hold, receive and to enjoy to themselves and their suc-
cessors, in fee simple, or for any lesser-estate, any pro-
perty, real, personal or mixed, which by the constitution
and laws of this state may be acquired and held by any

Proviso.

religious society: Provided nevertheless, That such pro-
perty shall not exceed ten thousand dollars, and also that
the said trustees, by the name aforesaid, shall be able
and capable in law to sue and be sued, implead and be
impleaded, in any court of law or equity, in as full and
effectual manner as any other person or persons, bodies
politic or corporate may sue or be sued, plead or be im-
pleaded; and that it shall and may be lawful for the said
trustees, by the name aforesaid, to cause to be made and
used one common seal to authenticate all acts and instru-
ments of writing respecting their business, and the same1
at pleasure to alter and renew.