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3. Be it enacted, That any sale made by virtue of this act,
shall be notified to and confirmed by the orphans court of Ca-
roline county, before the conveyance of the property shall be
made, and the said Robert Cook shall give a bond to the state
of Maryland, with such security as shall be approved by the or-
phans court aforesaid, for the payment of the consideration mo-
ney for the said land to his daughter the said Mary Cook, upon
the death of the said Robert Cook, or in case of her death to her
heirs at law, which bond shall be lodged in the orphans court of
Caroline county for the benefit of the said Mary Cook.
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Dec. Ses. 1816.
Sale to be con-
firmed by or-
phans court.
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CHAPTER 95.
An act to Incorporate the Sisters of Charity of Saint-Jo-
seph's, in Frederick County.
Whereas, Elizabeth A. Seton, Elizabeth Boyle, Cecilia
O. Conway, Jane Smith, Rosetta White, Margaret George,
Bridget Farrell, Mary Ann Butler, Frances Jourdan, Susanna
Closey, Teresa Conway, Jane Francis Gartland, Eleanor An-
gela Brady, Ann Gruber, Adele Salva, Elizabeth Magdalene
Guerin, Sarah Thompson, Camilla Corish, Margaret Felicity Bra-
dy, Scholastica Beams, Julia Shirk, and Louisa Roger, by their
humble petition to this general assembly, have represented, that
being unmarried women, and above the age of twenty-one years,
they have formed themselves into a religious association, by the
name of The Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph's, and under
the superintendance of certain clergymen of their religious per-
suasion, for works of piety, charity and usefulness, and especi-
ally for the care of the sick, the succour of aged, infirm, and ne-
cessitous persons, and the education of young females; which
association, from its nature and objects, as well as its positive
regulations, must always bo composed of unmarried women ;
that for the purposes of their institution, and as a place of resi-
dence for themselves and their successors, a farm near Emmitts-
burg, in Frederick county, in this state, has been bestowed on
them by a pious and charitable person, from the cultivation and
rents of which they derive a part of their support, and on which
their own industry, and some charitable donations, have enabled
them to erect suitable buildings for their residence, and for the
uses of their school; that as the individuals who compose their
association change by deaths and new admissions, they can-
not hold this property in their own names, because of the
very great embarrassments to which those changes must give
rise; for which reason it has been vested in, and is now held by,
two of their friends, for the benefit of their institution; that the
untimely death of these individuals, without making the necessa-
ry dispositions on the subject, and the difficulty of finding a suc-
cession of suitable depositories for such a trust, must expose the
petitioners to great embarrassment, and even to the loss of the
property; while the danger and fear of similar embarrassments and
inconveniencies may, and probably do prevent, other charitable
persons, favourably disposed towards the objects of their insti-
tution, from making to them such donations within proper limits,
as to value and amount, as would enable them to become more
extensively useful; fur which inconveniencies they are advised,
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Passed Jan. 17
Preamble.
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