LAWS OF MARYLAND.

MAY SESS.
1813.

respective shores, out of any unappropriated money in
the treasury.

CHAPTER 7.

Passed May
24, 1813.

Preamble.

An act to incorporate the trustees of the Westminister
General Meeting House, in Frederick county.
WHEREAS, sundry inhabitants of the town of
Westminster, in Frederick county, and its vicinity,
have by their petition, set forth to the legislature that
they have purchased a lot of ground in the said town,
and have erected thereon a house for public worship,
and pray for an act of incorporation for the regulation
and organization of said house of worship, and it ap-
pearing reasonable that the prayer of said petition be
granted: Therefore,

Trustees—
powers & priv-
iliges.

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That Isaac Shriver, David Fish-
er, James M'Haffie, Joshua Gist, Francis Hollings-
worth, James M'Cannon and William Durbin, senr.
from and immediately after the passing of this act,
shall be, and they are hereby created a body politic
and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, stile
and title of the trustees of the Westminster General
Meeting House, and that they, the said trustees, by the
name aforesaid, and their successors, to be elected as
herein after mentioned, shall have a perpetual succes-
sion, and shall be able and capable in law to purchase,
take, have, hold, receive and enjoy to them and their
successors in fee simple, or for any lesser estates, any
property, real, personal or mixed, which by the con-
stitution and laws of this state may be acquired and

Proviso.

held by any religious society: Provided nevertheless,
That such property shall not exceed ten thousand dol-
lars; and also that the said trustees, by the name a-
foresaid, shall be able and. capable in law, to sue and
be sued, implead and be impleaded in any court of law
or equity in as fall and effectual manner as any other
person or persons, bodies politic or corporate may sue
or be sued, plead or be impleaded; and that it shall
and may be lawful for the said trustees by the name
aforesaid, to cause to be made and used one common
seal to authenticate all acts and instruments of writing
respecting their business, and the same at pleasure to
alter and renew.

Election of
trustees—who
shall be enti-
tled to vote —
how to be as-
certained, &c.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose
of keeping up and perpetuating the trustees of the
Westminster General Meeting House, an election
shall be held at some place in Westminster on Easter