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BOSTON:

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Rec. Sept. 24, 1901

ACTS AND LAWS,

PASSED BY THE GENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS:
BEGUN AND HELD AT BOSTON, IN THE COUNTY OF
SUFFOLK, ON WEDNESDAY THE THIRTIETH DAY OF
MAY, ANNO DOMINI, 1792.

1792. Chapter 1.

[May Session, ch. 1.]

AN ACT PERMITTING THE NATURALIZATION OF PERSONS PRO-
SCRIBED BY ANY LAW OF THIS COMMONWEALTH.

sons natural

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same, that all persons proscribed by any Law or Laws Proscribed perof this Commonwealth may be naturalized and admitted ized. as Citizens, in the same manner and on the same conditions as are directed and provided in case of other Aliens, in and by an Act of the United States in Congress assembled, entitled, "An Act to establish an uniform rule of Naturalization;" any Law or Resolve to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided that the previous proceedings Proviso. at a common law Court of record, required by that Act, be had before some such Court within this Commonwealth.

1792.- Chapter 2.

[May Session, ch. 2.]

June 9, 1792.*

AN ACT TO REPEAL AN ACT, ENTITLED, "AN ACT TO INVEST
THE COMMITTEE OF THE SECOND PRECINCT IN REHOBOTH
WITH CORPORATE POWERS FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES THEREIN
MENTIONED" AND TO INCORPORATE A NUMBER OF THE
INHABITANTS OF SAID PRECINCT BY THE NAME OF THE
CATHOLICK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SOCIETY IN
THE SECOND PRECINCT IN THE TOWN OF REHOBOTH.

Whereas it appears to this Court that the Congregational Preamble. Church & Society within the said Precinct whereof the

This act not signed by governor.

Act repealed.

Persons incorporated.

Revd. Robert Rogerson is the present minister, have built a meeting house at their own expence, & are in possession of considerable real estate generously given by Epharim Hunt deceased for the purpose of supporting the Congregational ministry in said Church and Society. Therefore

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled & by the authority of the same, that the said Act, entitled, "An Act to invest the Committee of the second precinct in Rehoboth with corporate powers for certain purposes therein mentioned,” passed in the year of Our Lord, One thousand seven hundred and sixty one, be, & it is hereby repealed.

And be it further Enacted, that the Revd. Robert Rogerson, Joshua Smith, John Brown, Ephraim Bliss, Seth Knap, Samuel Bullock, Abiah Bliss, Thomas Carpenter the second, Jonathan Bliss, Abdiel Bliss, Nathan Bliss, Peter Reed, Samuel Bliss, David Cushing, Uriel Bowen, Peter Bliss, Ezekiel Reed, Ezra Perry, Elisha Allen, Joseph Kent, Daniel Martin, Christopher Carpenter, Joseph Wheaton, William Bullock, Ephraim Bliss junr, Samuel Carpenter, Abiah Carpenter, Thomas Carpenter the fourth, Joseph Wheaton the second, Phillip Walker, Jacob Cushing, Ezekiel Kent, Ephraim Turner, Samuel Reed, Joshua Reed, Abel Perry, Samuel Bliss the second, Oliver Bliss, Thomas Smith, Abel Carpenter the second, David Bliss, Amos Lane, Aaron Fuller, Isaac Fowler, Thomas Carpenter the third, James Bliss, Joshua Smith junr, Abdiel Bliss junr, David Bliss the second, Isaiah Allen, Abel Bliss, James Carpenter the second, Robert Follet, Lewis Ormsbe, Abiah Bliss junr, Ezra Perry junr, Timothy Perry, Isaac Burr, Nathan Munroe, Jonathan Bliss junr, James Bliss the second, Simeon Bliss, Joseph Smith, Ebenezer Fuller, Nathaniel Fuller, Josiah Cushing, Joshua Bliss the second, Obediah Bliss, John Adams, Joseph Willmarth, Christopher Blauding, Daniel Willmarth, David Newman, Samuel Newman, Kent Bullock, Nathaniel Peirce, Eleazer Bullock, Samuel Smith the second, Wilks Walker, John Rogerson, Ebenezer Short, Nathan Smith, Thomas Lincoln, Stephen Carpenter, Robert King, Joshua Carpenter, Nathaniel Bliss & William Bliss, & all such other inhabitants of said precinct, as shall hereafter by a major vote of said Society be admitted as members of said Society at a regular meeting of the qualified voters called for that purpose, be, and they

hereby are incorporated into a distinct religious society by the name of the Catholick Congregational Church and Society in the second precinct in the Town of Rehoboth, and hereby are invested with all the powers, privilidges and immunities that Precincts and parishes within this Commonwealth do or may by law enjoy; and the Clerk of said Society shall from time to ime record the names of all persons who shall become members thereof, in a Book to be kept for that purpose; and when any member of that Society shall request a dismission therefrom and signify the same in writing to the said Clerk, he shall make a record thereof, and such person shall no longer be considered as a member of said Society.

pointed.

And be it further Enacted, that Thomas Carpenter the Trustees apsecond, Samuel Bullock, Jonathan Bliss, Jacob Cushing & Thomas Carpenter the third, the present trustees of the said Precinct, and such as may be hereafter annually chosen by said Society as Trustees, shall be, and they hereby are impowered by the name of the Trustees of the empowered. Catholick Congregational Church and Society in the second precinct in Rehoboth, to receive all the donations. and subscriptions, both real and personal, now in the hands of the Trustees of said precinct; and also such other grants, appropriations and donations real or personal, as have been, or shall hereafter be made for the purposes aforesaid, Provided that the annual income of Proviso. the whole shall never exceed one hundred & fifty pounds; & the said Trustees shall apply the rents issues and profits or so much thereof as the Society shall find necessary, for the support of a pious, learned, congregational minister settled in the work of the ministry in said Society.

Provided nevertheless, that if it shall hereafter so happen, that there shall be no such minister settled in the said Society, then, in every such case the income arising in such vacation shall be used and improved to supply said Society with a religious preacher; and if there shall be at any time a surplussage for the purposes aforesaid, all such surpluss shall be & hereby is appropriated, & shall be used and improved by the said Society, for building or repairing their Meeting House, or towards the support of a School for the benefit of the Society as they shall direct.

And be it further Enacted, that all bonds, mortgages & their power. other lawful securities duly made & executed to the present Trustees of said precinct or their predecessors in that

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