LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose
of keeping up and perpetuating the trustees of the Jeru-
salem Church, an election shall be held, in each and eve-
ry year hereafter, or as soon thereafter as conveniently
may be; at which election each contributor, or person
holding an interest in said property, shall be entitled to
a vote; and for the purpose of ascertaining who are so
entitled, the trustees shall record, in a book for that pur-
pose, the names of all persons who have contributed to, or
associated for the purpose of purchasing the property
aforesaid, and which said vote, and interest in said pro-
perty, may be assigned or transferred, by a simple trans-
fer or assignment in writing, under the hand of the party,
attested by one witness or more.

DEC. SESS.

1813.

Election of
trustees.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trus-
tees now appointed, or who may be hereafter elected, or
a majority of them, and their successors, from time to
time, as occasion may require, may and shall meet toge-
other to transact the business and superintend and protect
the property put under their trust and care, and shall make,
constitute and alter such rules and orders for regulating
their own proceedings, and the management of the tem-
poral concerns of the Jerusalem Church, as they shall

Trustees shall
meet to trans-
act business.
Rules and or-
ders.

judge most fit. Provided, that such rules and regulations
be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this
state.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 93.

An act for the benefit of the heirs of William Ringgold,
of Kent county.
WHEREAS it is represented to this General Assem-
sembly, by the petition of John Carvil Hynson Junr.
guardian of the children of William Ringgold late of
Kent county deceased, that the income of the estate of
the said William Ringgold is inadequate to the mainte-
nance and education of the said children, and that with-
out a sale be made of some part of his real estate, and a
beneficial investment of the proceeds thereof the said
children will suffer, and whereas it is also represented
by the said petition, that a part of the estate of the said
William Ringgold consists of fifty acres of wood land,
being a part of a tract of land called "Addition" lying
in Kent county aforesaid, which piece of property is
not only unproductive but is also expensive to the estate;
Therefore,

Passed Jan.

26, 1814.

Preamble.

Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the said John Carvill Hynson
Junr. be, and he is hereby authorised and empowered as
trustee to dispose of in the manner and upon such terms
as shall be directed by the orphans' court of Kent coun-
ty, all that part of a tract of land situate in Kent county,
called "Addition," of which William Ringgold late of
said county died seized.

Trustee to
dispose of said
land.