JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 8.
AN ACT supplementary to an Act, entitled, an "Act to
incorporate the Home for the Aged of Frederick City,"
passed by the General Assembly of Maryland, in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and known as Chapter
eighty-seven of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land of that year.

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WHEREAS, Ann Grahame Ross, and others associated with
her, all residents of Frederick County, State of Maryland,
formed themselves into a society, or association, by the name
of "The Home for the Aged of Frederick City," for the
benovelent purpose of rendering charitable aid to aged persons,
residents of Frederick County or elsewhere, and providing a
home with the comforts thereof for such aged pessons who
might need the same, in accordance with the rules and regu-
lations which said society or association might adopt, and for
the purpose of carrying into effect their benevolent plan, prayed
that trustees might be incorporated with power to receive, hold
and dispose of contributions, donations, gifts, grants, devises
and bequests of all kinds of property, estate and effects to a
limited extent; and

Society for
charitable aid.
Frederick co.

WHEREAS, By an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland
passed at its session of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and
known as Chapter eighty-seven of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of that year, Charles W. Ross, William
P. Maulsby, Jr., Henry Williams, George Markel, W. Irving
Parsons and Edward Eichelberger, and their successors in
office, elected in the manner therein provided, were incorpora-
ted and made a body politic by the corporate name of the
"Trustees of the Home of the Aged of Frederick City," and
by that name to have perpetual succession and be capable in
law of receiving and holding in trust and of using and dispos-
ing of all kinds of gifts, grants, conveyances, dona'tions,
devises and bequests of estate, real, personal and mixed
property and effects, not exceeding in amount one hundred
thousand dollars; and

WHEREAS, It is represented to this General Assembly that
the success of the said "The Home for the Aged of Frederick
City" has far exceeded the expectations of its promoters and
originators, and is engaged in a meritorious, charitable and
benevolent work; and

WHEREAS, It is further represented to this General Assem-
bly that the amount of money and property which said

Preamble.