1801.

NOVEMBER, L A W S OF MARYLAND.

C H A P,
XXXV.

the affairs of the society that shall then come before, them, and they shall begin an hour at least
after the time appointed for meeting, and shall choose a chairman, and after the choice of a chair-
man, shall continue for the space of one hour at least; and if any chairman of the said general
meetings shall refuse or neglect to put or offer to the consideration and determination of the said
general meetings any question or matter which shall be then and there proposed, seconded and in-
sisted on, then the general meeting shall, and they are hereby empowered, to choose another
chairman in the room of him so refusing or neglecting as aforesaid; and all and every of the said
general meetings may and they are hereby declared to have full power and authority to consider,
treat of and determine, concerning all or any the matters and things relating to the said society,
and the support, preservation and good order thereof, and to alter and amend the present articles,
and make any additional articles which may be deemed conducive to the prosperity of the society,
at all which meetings the determination of a majority of the members present shall be conclusive
and binding on the whole society.

Article repeal-
ed, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the twenty-second article of the original act of incorporation,
and to which this is a supplement, be and the same is hereby repealed.

C H A P. XXXVI.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.

A Further supplement to an act, entitled, An ad: to authorise and
empower the levy court of Montgomery county to assess and levy
a sum of money on the assessable property thereof for the pur-
pose of building a new gaol in said county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS by the act to which this is a supplement, no provision is made for the removal
of prisoners from the old to the new gaol; therefore,

Sheriff shall
have power,
&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the sheriff of Montgomery coun-
ty shall have power and authority, as soon as he shall have received possession of the new gaol in
said county, to remove the prisoners from the old to the new gaol aforesaid, and such removal
shall not be considered as an escape, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Court to sell
the old gaol,

&c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of Montgomery county is hereby authorised
and directed to sell at public auction the old gaol, on giving three weeks previous notice, by ad-
vertisement set up at the court-house door, and such other public places as to the said court may
seem proper, which old gaol shall be, by the purchaser, removed from the public ground within
six months after the day of sale.

Money to be
applied, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the money arising from the sale of said gaol shall be applied to
the use of the county aforesaid.

C H A P XXXVII

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.

An ACT to authorise the persons therein named to build a metho-
dist meeting-house on the public ground in Chester-town, in

Preamble.

Kent county.

WHEREAS sundry members of the methodist episcopal church in Chester-town, and itf
vicinity, as well as others, not members of the said church, have by their petition to this
general assembly represented, that the meeting-house in the said town is in a ruinous condition,
and is moreover so situated as to render it inconvenient to attend the same, and have also repre-
rented, that persons of different religious denominations have voluntarily subscribed a sum of mo-
ney sufficient to build a new meeting-house, which they pray they may be permitted to erect on
the public ground in the said town ; and the same appearing reasonable, therefore,

Commission-
ers appointed,
&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Benjamin Chambers, James
Hodges, junior, James Scott, Cuthbert Hall and doctor James Anderson, junior, or a majority of
them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to lay off a quantity of the public ground
on the market place in Chester-town, not exceeding ninety feet in length and fifty feet in- breadth
on such convenient part thereof as the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall think
proper, and to return a certificate thereof, under their hands, to the clerk of Kent county, who
is hereby required to record the same among; the land records of the said county,
III. AND