The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-04-08

An Act to Incorporate Certain Religious
Institutions.
SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the
Senate aud House of Representatives of
the State of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in General Assembly, and by
the authority of the same, That from
and after the passage of this Act, all
persons who now arc or who hereafter
shall or may become members of tho
said Society. shall be, and thcy>ase here
BY Incorporated, and arc hereby declared
to be a body polite aid corporate by the
name and style of the Mount Pleasant
Baptist Church, and by the said name
shall have a succession of officers and
members, and have a common seal.
SEC. 2. That the said corporation
shall have power to purchase, receive
and possess real md personal property,
andFt to sell the same, and by its corporate
name to u and be sued in any Court,
and to make such rules and bylaws, not
rcpugnant to law, as may be thought ne
cessary and expedient.
Sec. 3. That from and Immediately
after the passage Of this Act, all persons
who now are, or who hereafter shall or
may become, members of the Hupewcll
Baptist Church. shall be, and they are
hereby Incorporated under the name and
style Of the Ilopewcll Baptist Church of
I.aurens County, aud by the said uainc
shall have succe sors of officers and
meHs6erss ana have aud use a common
seal.
SEC. 4. The Ssaid corporation shall
nave power to purchase, rccci*a and pos
sess any reaf of personal estate not ex-
cecdiag in value the sum of twenty
thousand dollars, or to sell the same, and
by its corporate name to sue and be sued
in any Court in this State, aud to make
such rules and bylaws, not repngnant to
law, as may be thought necessary and
expedient.
SEC. 5. That Patrick Smalls, Lewis
Smnlls, James y. Bolan, John Alexan-
der, Robert Chisolm, Joseph Idencuttcr
and Cesar Gillison, together with all
who are now, or who hereafter, shall or
may become members of the said Eutaw
Baptist Church, of Grahamville, shall
be, and they are hereby, declared to be
a body corporate, by the name aud style
Of the Second Eutaw Baptist Church,
and by this said name shall have success
sion Of officers aud members, ami have u
common seal.
SEC. 6. That the said corporation
shall have power to purchase, receive
and possess any real or personal estate
not exceeding in value the sum of ten
thousand dollars, or to dispose of the
same by its corporate name. TO sus and
be sued, plead and be implcaded in any
Court OF law or equity liz this State, and
to make such rules aud bylaws, not re
pugnant to the laws of the land, as may
be thought'nccessary aud expedicnt.
SEC. z. That SImucl Marshall, An
tim Mckeevcr, Samuel L. Jackson.
Lazarus Smart, Abuer Gibson, Cornelius
Bell and al otFer persons who now arc.
or who shall or hereafter may become
members Of the said Society, shall he.
and they ere hereby, Incorporated aud
declared to be a body corporate, BY the
name and style Of tho Macedonia Bnp.
fist Church Of Darlington, and by that
said name shall have succession Of oii-
GERS and members, and have a common
seal.
Sec. 8. That the said corporation
shall have power to purchase, receive
and possess any real or personal estate
for the purpose of this Act, not exceed
ing in value tho sum of fifty thousand
dollars, or to sell the same, and by It's
corporate name to sue and be sued in
any Court in this STATE, aud to make
such rules and bylaws, not rcpugnant to
the laws Of the land, as may DC thought
necessary and expedient. Said Society
shall have all the powor and be subject
to all the liabilities and restrictions OF
the Act, to regulate the formation of COR
pora'ions so far as applicable.
SEC. 8. That the foregoing Acts shall