JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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to the above-named property, with power to lease,

sell and convey the same; and,

WHEREAS, the said trustees have all died, and the

meeting-house has fallen down, and the congrega-

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tion been broken up, and the land has been sold by

the present trustees; and,

WHEREAS, the Old School or Particular Baptist

Church, at Black Rock, in Baltimore county, being

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the nearest church of the same faith and order, did,

at one of their church meetings, appoint John B.

Ensor, Joshua Plowman and James Blizzard, trus-

tees thereof, the appointment of whom were fully

ratified and confirmed by the act of Assembly,

passed January session, eighteen hundred and fifty-

eight, chapter one hundred and ninety-three; and,

WHEREAS, since the appointment of Joshua Plow-

man trustee as aforesaid, he has died, and John H.

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Ensor has been appointed in his place; and,

WHEREAS, the money arising from the sale of said

land is now in the hands of said trustees, without

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power to dispose of the same; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the said John B. Ensor, James

Invested with
rights and

Blizzard and John H. Ensor, and their successors,

privileges.

be and they are hereby invested with the same

rights and privileges which are granted to the said

Thomas Layman, John Peregoy and Benjamin

Buckingham, and their successors, by the said act

of eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, chapter nine,

with the power and authority to expend said money

now in their hands, as trustees aforesaid, or so much

thereof as may be necessary to repair the said Old

School or Particular Baptist Church, at Black Rock,

in Baltimore county, and for such other purposes

as the wants and necessities of said church may

require.

Approved April 8, 1876.