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JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
members of the Roman Catholic Church, and in the event of
said Oblate Sisters of Providence of Baltimore being unable
or unwilling from any cause to accept said rest, residue and
remainder of said estate that the same shall go to and become
the property of the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis
of the City of Baltimore for the same purposes and upon like
conditions and limitations in said will fully set forth; and
WHEREAS, It has been suggested that according to the
time, intent and meaning of Article 38 of the Bill of Rights
the said gifts, devise and bequests require the sanction of the
Legislature of the State; and
WHEREAS, It has been further suggested that certain of the
beneficiaries in the said will and testament, are not therein
named with strict testorical accuracy by their several and
respective corporate titles; and
WHEREAS, It is just and expedient that full effect should
be given to the benevolent purposes of said testa tor; therefore,
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sanction of the Legislature be, and it is hereby
given to any, each and all of the gifts, devise or bequests
contained in the last will and testament of Dodaise Dode, late
of Baltimore city, deceased, for and in favor of the several
corporations designated in said will, that is to say, the Little
Sisters of the Poor, one thousand dollars; the Oblate Sisters
of Providence of Baltimore, one thousand dollars, and the
Protectors of Saint Mary's Female Orphaline School of the
City of Baltimore, five hundred dollars; and all money or
property of every kind or description passing under the resid-
uary clause of said last will and testament of said testatrix
unto the Oblate Sisters of Providence of Baltimore, the cor-
poration hereinbefore named upon condition that that corpora-
tion accept the same for the purposes of maintaining a Hospital
for invalid poor persons, without distinction of color, who
may be members of the Roman Catholic Church, and in the
event of the said Oblate Sisters of Providence of Baltimore
being unable or unwilling from any cause to accept said rest,
residue and remainder of said estate that then the same shall
go to and become the property of the Sisters of the Third Order
of Saint Francis of the City of Baltimore for the same purposes
and upon like conditions and limitations as in said will fully
set forth.
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Bequests
sanctioned to
various
religious
institutions.
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