1818.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

chap. 133.

Proviso.

Before they pro-
ceed to act to take
an oath

and incumbrances attending the same, and to determine, under all
circumstances, whether it would be to the interest and advantage
of the infant or infants that such land should be sold, and report the
same to the court, with their reasons therefor; Provided, that
the said report shall not be conclusive on the court, but the court
may, in their discretion, examine witnesses, and have other testimo-
ny, and shall decree a sale only in those cases where, under all cir-
cumstances, the court shall be satisfied that a sale would be lor the
interest and advantage of the infant or infants.
3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, or a majority
of them, before they proceed to act, shall take an oath, or affirmati-
on, that they will impartially ascertain the quality and value of the
said lands, with the advantages and incumbrances attending the
same, and a true report thereof make to the best of their skill and
judgment.

Passed Feb. 6 1819

Committee of Bap-
tist Church made
able to purchase
and hold estate.

To hold such es-
tate as fully as the
estate they now
hold under former
law.

Section repealed.

CHAPTER 134.

A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to incorporate the
Baptist Church in the City of Baltimore.

Sec 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the committee of the Baptist Church in the city of Baltimore, and
their successors, shall hereafter be able and capable to purchase,
receive, hold and enjoy, any estate, real, personal or mixed, pro-
vided the same, (including what they now hold,) shall not exceed
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.
2. And be it enacted, That the said committee of the said church,
and their successors, shall hold and enjoy any such real, personal,
or mixed estate. (not beyond the said sum of one hundred thousand
dollars,) as fully and completely, and to the same intents and pur-
poses, as they now hold and enjoy under their aforesaid original
act of incorporation.
3. And be it enacted, That the 10th section of the said act, to which
this is a supplement, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Passed Feb 6, 1819

Trustees appoint-
ed and incorpo-

rated.

CHAPTER 135.

An act to incorporate the Trustees of the New-Market Aca-
demy, in Dorchester county.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Henry P. Waggaman), John Newton, Levin Marshall, Thomas
Light, Morris Roach, Daniel Sulivane, John Stewart, and William
W. Eccleston, with such other citizens of Dorchester county as
they, or a majority of them, shall select, not exceeding fifteen in
number, be and they are hereby appointed trustees of the New
Market Academy in Dorchester county; and the said trustees, and
their successors, (to be elected in the manner herein after mention-
ed,) shall be, and they are hereby erected and created, and declar-
ed to be, one community, corporation and body politic, with per-
petual succession, in fact and in law, to all intents and purposes
connected with the said institution, by the name and style of The
Trustees of the New Market Academy, in Dorchester county, by
which name and title the said trustees, and their successors, shall
be competent and capable at law or in equity, to take and to hold,
to themselves and their successors, for the use of the said academy,
any estate in lands, tenements, goods, chattels, monies, stock,