The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-05-05
LOCAL LAW.
CHAPTER 291.

AN ACT to enable the Trustees of Spring
field Presbyterian Church in Carroll county,
to receive certain portions of land by deed
and to empower them to deed certain other
portions ofproperty in exchange for certain
parts of said Church property and sanction
the same.
SECTION l. Be II enacted by The General
assembly of Maryland, That the Trustees Of
Springfield Presbyterian Church, in the coun-
ty of Carroll, already a body Corporate, is
hereby authorized to receive and hold for
Springfield Presbyterian Church, according to
the government Of said Church, a certain ed.
ditional parcel of land containing one and
one. quarter acres, more or less, lying adIoin.
ing the original cemetery of said Church, and
now embraced within the enclosure of said
Church cemetery, for cemetery purposes and
decided by Louis II. Schultz and wife, to said
Trustees in the year 1893.
SEC. 2. Be IL enacted, That said Board
of Trustees of said Church are hereby enabled
10 receive from Frank Brown and wife, by
deed, certain portion of ground containing
two acres, more or less, with the buildings
and appertenances thereon and thereto at.
tached, and known as springfield Institute,
the same to be held by said Trustees for the in-
terest of said Springfield Presbyterian Church
and in accord with the form of government OF
Mrs. Prudence A. Patterson, deceased.
SEC. 3. II is hereby enacted, That said
Board of Trustees of said Church is enabled
to receive by deed from Frank Brown and
wife, certain portion Of land containing two
acres and thirty perches, more or less, lying
across the county road, Immediately in front
of said Church and separated from the above
mentioned Springfield Institute by the pub.
lie road leading to Springfield Mill, SAID TWO
acres and thirty perches, more or less, to be
decided in exchange for certain other portion
of land known as part OF Hotel Heights
Avenue" and passing through the land OF
said Church and described and referred to in
Section Of this Act and said land to be held
for said Church and according to the form OF
government of said Church.
SEC. 4. BE IL enacted, That said Board
of Trustees is further enabled to receive by
deed from Louis H. Schultz and wife, GER
tain portion of land, being parcel four feet
wide and beginning four feet from the present
southwest corner of the enclosed cemetery
and enacted herein to be sustained under
deed of Louis II. Schultz and wife in the year
1898, Section l, and extending four feet out
side of said enclosure to intersection OF the
rear line Of the grant of George Patterson to
said Church, said four feet of land to be in
exchange for certain other parcel of land to
be decided to Louis Fl. Schultz, as provided
for in Section of this Act.
Size. 5. Be ii enacted, That said Board of
Trustees of said Church is hereby enabled
and empowered to make deed to Louis Ii.
Schultz, in exchange for that parcel OF land
mentioned in Section of this Act and de
scribed as portion of land four feet wide and
extending along the northeast and southwest
enclosures of said Church properties; OF all
that triangular portion of land lying outside
Il. Of coiO EhuFpb
properties and within the enclosed field of
said Louis H. Schultz and along the comfy
road on the west side said triangular por-
ton of land containing one-slxth OF an acre
of land, more or less, and being a portion OF
the original grant of the late George Patter-
son to said Church, excepting in this transfer
four feet on the outside and along the line OF
the present enclosure, which is hereby re-
tanned to the Church.
SEC. 6. BE H enacted, That said Board OF
Trustees of said Church is enabled and en-
powered to make deed to Frank Brown IN ex-
change for that parcel of land. described IN
Section of this Act, containing two acres
and thirty perches, more or less, OF all that
part of 'tHotel Heights Avenue" now open
rs an avenue, thirty feet wide and hereby
decided for road purposes only said avenue
extending from the county road on the north
east through the properties of said Church to
the rear line on the southwest of the same,
aud being on and of lands originally granted
10 said Church by George Patterson and
James George, ST., deceased.
SEC. 7. Be IL enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 9th, 1894.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
President of the Senate.
JAMES II. PRESTON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK,
House OF DELEGATES.
1 hereby certify that the aforegoing is u
true copy an Act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at the January Session
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.