A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

carrying grain or other produce to float at ebb-
tide, and to condemn the same for the use of the
said John S. Clay ton and Samuel E. Clay ton and
their heirs ; provided, such appropriation of the
said Creek shall not in their opinion obstruct or
prejudice the navigation thereof.

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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the Commis-
sioners aforesaid be and they are hereby author-
ised and empowered to annex such conditions and
restrictions to said sale and condemnation as they
may deem conducive to the public interest.

Conditions of
sale.

Sec. 4. Be it enacted, That the said county
Commissioners, in their discretion, may sell and
convey to V. Burgess Hines, of Kent county, a
portion not exceeding thirty by fifty feet of the
public ground held by the said county on Graysen
Creek, in the first election district of Kent county.

Conveyance
authorized.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

In force

CHAPTER 247.

AN ACT to incorporate Trustees for the benefit
of the Methodist Episcopal Church on Kent Cir-
cuit, and to receive a conveyance of real estate.

Passed March
7, 1862.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Thomas Baker, Joshua Clark,
William W. Parks, John N. Usilton, Joseph A
Harper, Henry Bramble and James Kendall, of
Kent county, and their successors, be and they are
hereby incorporated and made a body politic, by
the name and title of "Trustees for the benefit of
the Methodist Episcopal Church on Kent Circuit,"
and, by that name, shall have the right and capa-
city to receive and take, from Samuel E. Baker
and wife, a deed or conveyance of a quantity of
woodland in Kent county, not exceeding ten acres,
with rights of way to and from the same, and with
rights and privileges of using springs, branches,
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Incorporated,
&c.