JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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fixed by the board of directors. The directors, or a majority
of them, shall have power to open books for subscription or
such increased capital stock at such time and places as they
may deem expedient. The stockholders may elect a board
of directors of twenty-five in number, who shall serve until
the next annual meeting after their election, or until their
successors have been duly elected and qualified. The directors
so elected by said company, and their successors, are hereby
authorized and empowered to enjoy and exercise all the
rights and privileges conferred upon them in the charter of
said company and in the amendments to the same.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1900.

CHAPTER 155.

AN ACT to declare the sanction and consent of the General
Assembly of Maryland to the several deeds made by Samuel
Appold and wife, Gabriel D. Clark and wife, and William
A. Kammerer, to the Trustees of St. Mark's English
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Baltimore, a corporation
duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Maryland,
and also to the acquisition hereafter by the said grantee of
the fee simple title to any lot of ground mentioned in said
deeds in which it has thereby acquired less than a fee
simple, and to the selling, mortgaging, leasing or other
disposition thereof.

Open books
for subscrip-
tion.

SEC. 1. And be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sanction and consent of the General Assembly
of Maryland be and the same is hereby declared given and
granted to the following sales, grants and conveyances to the
Trustees of St. Mark's English Evangelical Lutheran Church
of Baltimore, a corporation duly incorporated under the laws
of the State of Maryland; that is to say, first, to the deed of
a lot on the east side of Eutaw street, from Samuel Appold
and Susan C. Appold, his wife, dated the thirteenth day of
June, in the year 1882, and recorded amongst the Land
Records of Baltimore City, in Liber F. A. P. No. 934, folio
265; second, to the deed of a lot on the south side of Franklin
street, from Gabriel D. Clark and Helen A. Clark, his wife,
dated the seventh day of January, in the year 1884, and

Bequest
sanctioned.
St. Mark's
English
Evangelical
Lutheran Ch.