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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the day when an official certificate of its acceptance by the said Convention shall be filed with the Secretary of State.1
1878-CHAPTER 403.
An Act to explain certain corporate powers and privileges heretofore con- ferred, and also to confer additional corporate powers and privileges upon the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Maryland, by authorizing it to receive by gift, devise or otherwise, contributions in money, land or other property, and to hold the same for the purposes therein mentioned.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the corporate powers and privileges conferred upon the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Maryland, by the act amend- atory of the original act for the incorporation of said Convention, passed December session, eighteen hundred and forty, chapter sixty-seven, and which said amendatory act was passed January session, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, chapter seventeen, be and the same are hereby explained and extended so as to enable the said Convention to receive by gift, devise or otherwise, contributions in money, lands or other property, and to hold the same for burial grounds, church colleges, church or parish schools, for the support of missionaries and mission work, for building, adorning or repair- ing churches or mission chapels, and for such other general or special religious or charitable work or agencies within the said Diocese, and now or hereafter under the jurisdiction, control or sanction of the said Conven- tion, as may be designated by the donor, with the same power in regard to the administration of the respective funds so arising, and subject to the same proviso contained in the amendatory act above mentioned.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the day when an official certificate of its acceptance by said Convention shall be filed with the Secretary of State; provided, however, that this act shall
1. This act was accepted by the Convention of 1856, and a certificate of said acceptance was filed immediately thereafter with the Secretary of State,
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not be so construed as to interfere with the rights of any person under a proper legal construction of any act or law in force at the time of the pass- age of this act.1
COLLEGE OF ST. JAMES.
1843-CHAPTER 253.
An Act to incorporate a Literary Institution in Washington County, under the name of the College of St. James.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Frederick Dorsey, Thomas Buchanan, John R. Dall, William Rollinson Whittingham, Theodore B. Lyman, John B. Kerfoot, Reuben Riley, Russel Trevet, Dwight E. Lyman, and their successors, being members of and attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church in Maryland, shall be and they are hereby, constituted a corporation or body politic, by the name of the Trustees of the College of St. James, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and may purchase and hold property, whether acquired by purchase, gift, or devise, and whether real or personal or mixed, and may make and have a corporate seal, and the same break and alter at their pleasure, and shall have all other rights belonging to similar corporations by the laws of this State.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the object of said association is hereby declared to be the promotion of Christian and liberal education.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the entire management of the affairs and concerns of said corporation and college, and all the corporate powers hereby granted, shall be, and are hereby, vested in a board of nine trustees, resident within the State ; the persons named in the first section of this act shall be the first trustees.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the majority of the trustees shall have power from time to time to enact by-laws for the regulation and manage- ment of the affairs and concerns of said corporation and college, for filling up vacancies in the board occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the State or otherwise, as may be provided for by the by-laws, and also to prescribe the number and description, duties and powers of the officers,. the manner of their election, and the term of their offices.
SEC. 5.' And be it enacted, That for the purpose of carrying out the object declared in the second section of this act, or for any purpose con- nected therewith, the said corporation shall have power, from time to time, to purchase, take and hold, real and personal estate, and to sell, lease, and dispose of the same ; Provided, That the net annual value shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall have and possess the right and power of conferring the usual academical degrees.
1. This act was accepted by the Convention of 1878, and an official certificate thereof filed with the Secretary of State.
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SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this charter shall be revocable at any time hereafter by the Legislature of this State.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the Trustees and Faculty of said Col- lege shall make a yearly report of the state of the institution to the Gov- ernor of the State, to be by him laid before the Legislature.
1846-CHAPTER 172.
An Act relating to the College of St. James in Washington County. [In regard to the sale of liquor within two miles of the College.]
1858-CHAPTER 381.
An Act supplementary to the Act of December Session, eighteen hundred and forty-three, chapter two hundred and fifty-three, entitled an Act to incorporate a Literary Institution in Washington County, under the name of the College of St. James.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the third section of the act to which this is a supplement be amended, so as to read as follows : "And be it enacted, That the entire management of the affairs and concerns of the said corporation and college, and all the cor- porate powers hereby granted shall be and they are hereby vested in a Board of nine Trustees, seven of whom shall always be residents of this State, and the persons named in the first section of this act, shall be the first Trustees."
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Trustees shall have power to estab- lish said corporation in any county within this State, and to remove the same from county to county in this State as often as to them shall seem expedient and advisable.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect as soon as the said corporation shall signify its acceptance of the same, by writing, under its corporate seal, filed with the Governor of this State, to be by him pre- served among its executive records.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH, BALTIMORE. 1802-CHAPTER 105.
An Act to authorize the building of a Protestant Episcopal Church, within the City of Baltimore, by the name of St. Peter's Church, and for other purposes.
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SEC. 3. And be enacted, That when the said Church shall be so built as to admit of Divine worship to be performed therein, that the said Jeremiah Yellott, John Scott, William Jolly, Hezekiah Waters, Josias Pennington,
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Simon Wilmer of Edward, and James Corrie, and the survivors or survivor of them, shall, by advertisement in the different newspapers in the City of of Baltimore, notify the subscribers thereto, professing themselves mem- bers of the said Church, to assemble and meet together in the said Church, thirty days at least after such notification, for proceeding to the election of a Vestry to the said Church.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said subscribers, professing them- selves members of the said Church, or so many of them as shall then and there assemble and meet together, shall proceed to elect, by ballot, by a majority of votes, nine Vestrymen, from among the members of the said Church, who shall be deemed and considered the Vestry of the said Church for the ensuing year.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That when the said Vestry shall be thus elected, that they shall have and enjoy every right, power, benefit, privi- lege, and indulgence, that is given or granted to, used, or enjoyed by, any other Vestry of the Protestant Episcopal Church within the State of Mary- land.
SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That after the said first election of the Vestry to the said Church shall have been made as herein directed, the subscribers to and members of said Church, contributing to and attendants on the same, and being free white male citizens, shall annually, on Easter Monday, meet in said Church, and elect nine Vestrymen for the ensuing year, by a majority of votes, by ballot.1
1800-CHAPTER 45.
A supplement to the Act, entiled An Act to authorize the building of a Protestant Episcopal Church'i within the City of Baltimore, by the name of St. Peter's Church, and for other purposes, passed at November session, 1802.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the Vestry of the said Church, for the time being, may impose such annual rent on each and every pew in the said Church for the support of the Minister of the said Church, and for other incidental expenses, as they may think proper : Provided always, that the said Vestry shall not impose such rent or charge on any pew before the same shall be sold by the said Trustees, or all debts by them contracted, and sums of money by them advanced for the purposes afore- said, shall be paid and discharged.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the Vestry of the said Church shall not appoint or agree with a Minister to officiate in the-said Church for a longer time than one year, but they may re-elect or re-appoint the same Minister from time to time.2
1. Repealed in part by Act 1858, c. 300, Sec. 1.
2. Repealed by Act of 1858, c. 300, Sec. 3.
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SEC. 10. 'And be it enacted, That after the first election of a Vestry to the said Church, no person shall be entitled to vote for a Vestryman for said Church but free white male citizens, twenty-one years of age, holding a pew or half pew, in the said Church, and professing themselves members of the same.
SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That any Vestry of the said Church, for the time being, may purchase the fee of the lot on which the Church is built, and the fee of the lot of land purchased, or which may hereafter be pur- chased, for a burial ground, if the same shall not in the first instance be purchased in fee.
1858-CHAPTER 300.
An Act relating to the Vestry of St. Peter's Church, in the City of Baltimore.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That so much of the seventh section of an act entitled "An Act to authorize the building of a Protestant Episcopal Church, in the city of Baltimore, by the name of St. Peter's Church, and for other purposes," passed November session, eighteen hundred and two, chapter one hundred and five, as requires the election of nine Vestrymen for St. Peter's Church, shall be and is hereby repealed.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That from and after the first Easter Monday following the acceptance of this act by the Vestry of said Church, the Vestry thereof shall consist of the Rector, who shall be President thereof, and of eight Laymen, to be chosen in the same manner as the nine are now chosen.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the fourth section of an act entitled, "A supplement to the Act entitled An Act to authorize the building of a Protestant Episcopal Church within the city of Baltimore, by the name of St. Peter's Church, and for other purposes," passed at November session, eighteen hundred and three, chapter forty-five, be and the same is hereby repealed.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall go into effect so soon as it shall be accepted by the Vestry of the said Church, and a certificate of such acceptance filed with the Secretary of State.
1805-CHAPTER 6.
An Act for the Establishment of a School in the City of Baltimore.
Whereas, the Reverend George Dashiell, Rector of St. Peter's Protes- tant Episcopal Church, in the city of Baltimore, and sundry other persons members of said Church, have associated for the purpose of maintaining and educating poor children, and this General Assembly being desirous to assist such institutions by vesting their promoters with corporate powers ; therefore,
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Reverend George Dashiell, Edward Johnson, Thomas Rutter, Josias Pennington, William Jessop, Hezekiah Waters and Henry Dorsey Gough, and their successors in office, who shall be duly elected in the manner hereinafter described, are hereby declared to be one community, corporation and body politic, forever hereafter, by the name and style of the Trustees of St. Peter's School, and by that name they shall be, and are hereby made, able and capable in law to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain to them and to their successors aforesaid, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, pensions and other hereditaments, in fee simple, or for a term of years, life, or lives, or otherwise, and also goods, chattels or effects, of what nature, quality or kind soever, by the gift, bargain, sale or devise, of any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to make the same, and the same to grant, devise, alien or dispose of, in such manner as they may judge most conducive to the benevolent and charitable uses of said society ; Provided always, that the said corporation or body politic shall not, at any time, hold or possess property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding in yearly revenue eight thousand dollars.
3. And be it enacted, That when any parents or guardians, or any orphans' court, shall have placed any poor child or children in the before- mentioned institution, they shall thenceforth be under the control and management of the said institution, until it shall be thought proper by the Trustees of said school to bind out such poor child or children for the term which by law other poor children shall or may be bound, any law of this State to the contrary notwithstanding : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to abridge the security afforded by the laws concerning apprentices.
4. And be it enacted, That the Reverend George Dashiell, Edward Johnson, Thomas Rutter, Josias Pennington, William Jessop, Hezekiah Waters, and Harry Dorsey Gough aforesaid, shall and are hereby empow- ered to serve as Trustees of the said school, until the election of the Vestry of the Church of St. Peter's aforesaid for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, and that at time the power and office of the persons beforementioned shall, as Trustees, expire, and an election of seven Trustees, always including the Rector of the said Church, shall then and ever thereafter be made, by such members of the congregation as have the privilege of voting at an election for the Vestry, at the same time and in the same manner as the election by said members of the congregation is made for the Vestry of St. Peter's Church aforesaid ; but in case of a vacancy or vacancies occasioned by death, resignation, removal out of the State or disqualification of any of the said Trustees in the intermediate space of time between the passage of this act and the election directed to be made as aforesaid, the remaining Trustees, or a majority of them, shall fill up such vacancy or vacancies : Provided always, That their choices shall be made from the congregation of St. Peter's Church aforesaid.
5. And be it enacted, That the said Trustees and their successors, or a majority of them, shall and may ordain, establish, and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations as to them shall seem conducive to the interests of the said institution, and necessary to the good govern-
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ment and orderly management thereof, the same not being contrary to the laws of this State or of the United States, and generally to do and execute all such acts, matters, and things, and in such manner and form as to them sliall seem proper, in order more effectually to carry into effect the purposes of this act: Provided always, That a majority of the Trastees in being shall be necessary to form a quorum for the transaction of business.
6. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid Trustees and their successors, by the name aforesaid, shall be able and capable in law to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, and in all and any court or courts of justice whatsoever, and also to make and use a common seal, and the same to break or renew at pleasure.
1849-CHAPTER 225.
An Act to incorporate the St. Peter's Asylum for Female Children.
Whereas, a number of ladies in the city of Baltimore, attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Peter, there, having associated them- selves for the establishment and support of an institution to be devoted to the maintenance and education of destitute female children, and, for the promotion of their purpose, have asked that a charter be granted them.
SEC. 1. Be it enicted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Mrs. Keyser, Mrs. Keirle, Mrs. Levering, Mrs. Long, and all others, the ladies now contributing, or hereafter to become contributors to the Saint Peter's Asylum for female children, be, and they are hereby, constituted and created a body politic and corporate by that nane, and by the same name shall be, and they are hereby, enpowered to have and to use a common seal, to implead and be inpleaded, to receive from any parent, guardian, orphans' court, or other person or authority in charge, any destitute female child or children for the support and education, mental and religious, of such children, until they s'ill reach the age of eighteen years, or for a shorter period, as they shall in each case determine, to bind out any child so received when they shall judge it necessary, but so, however, that they shall be free at t'ie age of eighteen years ; to take by gift, grant, devise, bequest, o: other .vise, lan ls, tene ments, heredita ments, moneys, goods, and chattels, and to convey the si'ne, including herein the power to receive from the Trustees of Saint Peter's School, incorporated by an act of the General Assembly of this State, passed at November session, anno Domini eighteen hundred and five, any moneys or property which said Trustees may judge it conducive to the benevolent and charitable uses of their Society so to give, and generally to have and to exercise all other corporate powers which may be necessary or proper to effectuate the end of the creation of said body politic.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the internal government and direction of the body politic hereby created, shall be vested in a Board of Managers, to consist of twelve ladies, either married or unmarried, being annual con- tributors of five dollars or more, to be annually elected on Easter Monday, by the female annual contributors to the Asylum of the amount of one
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dollar or upwards, who shall be members of the congregation of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church ; said Managers to fill up the vacancies which may happen in the number in the course of the year, and in the event of the failure of election from any cause, to hold over until their successors are duly elected ; to have the power to make by-laws for their own government and that of the Asylum ; to employ and fix the duties and compensations of all agents and servants whom they may find necessary at the Asylum, and generally to have and exercise all powers needful for them in the premises, and that all corporate powers conferred by this act, other than those which concern the internal government and direction of its affairs, shall be exercisable by a board of five Trustees, or the major part thereof, to consist of Messrs. Samuel S. Keyser, Ellis B. Long, Clinton Levering, William W. Wayman, and William Woodward, and their successors, who shall be authorized, from time to time, to fill all vacancies in their number from whatever cause arising : Provided always, that nothing herein con- tained shall empower them to exercise any banking privileges, or to issue any note in the nature of a bank note.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the right is hereby reserved to the General Assembly to alter, amend, or annul this act of incorporation, at its pleasure.
CHRIST CHURCH, BALTIMORE.
1828-CHAPTER 136.
An act to incorporate the Members of Christ Church, in the City of Bal- timore, as a separate Congregation of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States.1
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, 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 Prostestant 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, immunities, rights, and privileges relat- ing 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 separate Congregations of said Church in this State.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Vestry elected by the said Congre- gation are hereby confirmed in their office till the period appointed by the act of 1798, for the 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 successors.
1. Amended by Act of 1872, c. 297.
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1840-CHAPTER 107.
An Act to incorporate the Christ Church Asylum for Female Children.1
Whereas, a number of ladies in the City of Baltimore, desirous to afford to destitute female children the opportunities of education and the means of support, have associated themselves for the establishment and mainte- nance of an institution to be devoted to those ends, and for the promotion of their purpose have asked that a charter be granted them.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Mrs. Gittings, Mrs. Wyman, Mrs. James Howard, and Mrs. Jenkins, and all others, the ladies now contributing, or hereafter to become contributors to the Christ Church Asylum for Female Children, be and they are hereby constituted and created a body politic and corporate by that name, and by the same name shall be and they are hereby empowered to have and to use a common seal, to implead and to be impleaded, and to take and con- vey lands, tenements, hereditaments, moneys, goods, and chattels, to an amount not exceeding in yearly value the sum of five thousand dollars.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the corporate powers and capacity by this act conferred, shall be exercisable only for the support and education of female children ; and that when any parent, guardian, or orphans' court of this State, shall have placed any female child or children with the said body corporate, the said child or children shall be subject to the regu- lations applicable by law to apprentices, until it shall be thought proper by said body corporate to bind them out, which it is hereby authorized to do until they reach the age of eighteen, in the manner in which other female children may be bound ; provided, that nothing herein contained be con- sidered as abridging the security afforded to such children by the laws con- cerning apprentices.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the authority herein before given to use a common seal, to implead and be impleaded, to purchase and convey lands, tenements, and hereditaments, to bind out children and to appoint a Board of Managers, as is hereinafter specified, shall reside in a Board of Governors, to consist of John S. Gittings, James Howard, A. J. Hen- derson, Samuel Wyman, and James Mason Campbell, Esquires, and their successors, and that said Board shall have power to fill all vacancies which may occur among its members, by death, removal, resignation, or otherwise, and to make such officers from among their own number, as they may think necessary.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the collection and employment of the means of said body corporate, in the support and education of feniale children, shall be confided to a Board of Managers, to consist of twenty- five ladies, either married or unmarried, being annual contributors of five dollars or upwards, to be annually appointed by the Governors, upon whom shall devolve also the duty, if requested by the said Board of Managers, of filling up any vacancies happening during the current year ; said Board of Managers to have power to contract in the name of the body corporate for the renting of houses, for the purchase of all things necessary for the sup-
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