1828

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 135.

city of Baltimore, specifying what streets, lanes or alleys,
they have so condemned, which return shall be filed in the
office of the register of the city.

GHAP. CXXXVI.

Pssed Feb. 21, 1829

An Act to Incorporate the Members of Christ Church, in
the City of Baltimore, as a separate Congregation
of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United
States.

Preamble

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by
the parishioners of St Paul's Parish in the city of Baltimore,
that they have entered into an agreement for the separation
of Christ's Church Congregation from the Parish of St.
Paul's, which has been approved of by the Convention of
the Protestant Episcopal Church of Maryland: And where-
as the said congregation have elected their vestry, and call-
ed a minister, but cannot become incorporated by any ex-
isting law, and therefore have no legal authority to receive,
the conveyance of the property agreed to be ceded to them
by the vestry of St Paul's, without the aid of the legisla-
ture; therefore,

Congregation of

Christ Church in-

corporated

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the congregation of Christ Church, in the
city of Baltimore, now forming a part of St. Paul's Parish
of Baltimore county, shall be and are hereby incorporated
as a separate congregation of the Protestant Episcopal Church
of the United States, by the name and style of The Vestry
of Christ's Church in the City of Baltimore, and by that
name shall severally have and exercise all such powers, im-
munities, rights and privileges, relating to the congregation
hereby incorporated, as are lawfully exercised and held by
the incorporation of St. Paul's Parish aforesaid in this state,
under the act of 1798, chapter 24, and by the same laws,
and in all respects be on the same footing with other sepa-
rate congregations of said church in this state.

Vestry confirmed

in their office

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the vestry elected by
the said congregation are hereby confirmed in their office
till the period appointed by the act of 1798, for electing a
new vestry, and they shall have legal authority to receive a
conveyance to them, and their successors, of such real and
personal property as may have been agreed to be conveyed
by St. Paul's Parish, and to transmit the same to their suc-

Vestries not oblig-

ed to meet on any

stated days &c

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That in future the vestries
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this state shall not be
obliged to meet on any stated days, or at any particular