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CHAPTER 272.
AN ACT to exempt from State and city taxation the real and personal property of the General German Protestant Orphans' Association of the city of Baltimore.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the real and personal property of the General German Protestant Orphans' Asso- ciation of the city of Baltimore is hereby exempted from State and city taxation ; provided, the assess- able property of said Association does not exceed in value one hundred thousand dollars.	Exempt from taxes.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 30, 1868.	In force.

CHAPTER 273. AN ACT to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to amend the sixteenth Article of the Code of Pub- lic General Laws by adding thereto the follow- ing Sections, relating to the powers of Courts of Equity in selling lands, passed March the third, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Act passed on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, Chap- ter one hundred and fifty-six, entitled "An Act to amend the sixteenth Article of the Code of Public General Laws by adding thereto the following Sections, relating to the powers of Courts of Equity in selling lands and to re-enact the same with amendments, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows : In all

Power of Equity Court.