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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Trustees--
Vacancies.
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. S. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Robert
Moore, John Kemp, Thomas H. Dawson, James Wainwright
and William W. Moore, be and they are hereby constituted and
- appointed the trustees of the said Third Haven Monthly Meet-
ing of Friends and their successors; and the. said trustees and
their successors, to be elected in the manner herein after men-
tioned, shall be and are hereby constituted, established, and
declared to be one corporation, community and body politic,
with perpetual succession, in deed and in law, to all intents and
purposes, connected with the temporal interests and concerns
of that branch of the society of Friends that is called and
known among the Friends by the name and distinction of the
Third Haven Monthly Meeting of Friends, by the name and
style of the Trustees of the Third Haven Monthly Meeting of
Friends, by which name and style they the said trustees,
and their successors, shall be competent and capable in
law and in equity, to grant, bargain, sell and convey,
they having previously obtained the consent and approba-
tion of the said Third Haven Monthly Meeting of
Friends agreeably to the order established amongst them, all
or any parts or parcels of the lands, messuages or property of
the said Third Haven Monthly Meeting of Friends, also all or
any of the lands, messuages or property which they as trustees
aforesaid, or their successors, may hereafter acquire or hold,
for the use and benefit of the said Third Haven Monthly Meet-
ing of Friends, and the said trustees, and their successors,
shall also be competent and capable in law and in equity, to
purchase, take and hold, to themselves and their successors, for
the use and benefit of the said Third Haven Monthly Meet-
ing of Friends, and their successors any estate in any messua-
ges lands and tenements, annuities, goods, chattels, monies or
effects, by the gilt, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, devise or
bequest, of any person or persons whatsoever, at any time or
times hereafter, provided the same do not exceed in the whole
the clear yearly value of two thousand dollars, and the same
messuages, lands and tenements, and other estate or property,
real or personal, to farm let, sell, or put out on interest, for the
use and benefit of the said Third Haven Monthly Meeting of
Friends, and to receive the rents, issues, profits, income and
interest of the same, and to apply the emoluments thereof as the
said Third Haven Monthly Meeting of Friends shall from
time to time order and direct
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That at all times forever
hereafter, when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen in the
said community, corporation or body politic, by the death, re-
moval, resignation, or disownment by the society of Friends,
of any one or more of the members thereof, the then members
of the Third Haven Monthly Meeting of Friends shall and
may with all convenient speed proceed to appoint another pep
son, or other persons, to fill such vacancy or vacancies, and it
like manner shall all future vacancies in the said community
corporation or body politic, be supplied and filled, so as to keep
up the number of five trustees.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, and
their successors, by the name and style of The Trustees of the
Third Haven Monthly Meeting of Friends, shall be capable
and competent in law and in equity, to sue and be sued, plead
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