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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be law- ful for the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of the Diocese of Easton, hereby incorpo- rated within the nine Counties of the Eastern Shore aforesaid, to divide or unite Parishes, to alter or adjust their bounds and to constitute new Parishes, in the manner prescribed in Section 33 of an Act for the establishment of Vestries in each Parish in this State, passed 1798, Chapter 24.	Power to di- vide.
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be and the same is hereby declared to be void and of no effect unless it shall be accepted by said Convention.	Void unless accepted.
Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved February 19, 1870.	In force.
CHAPTER 24.
AN ACT to repeal Section nine hundred and thirty-nine, Article four, of the Public Local Laws, relating to Baltimore City, sub-title " Water," as enacted by Chapter four hundred sixty-seven, of the Acts of Assembly, passed at the January Session, eighteen hundred and six- ty-eight, and to re-enact the said Section so as to read as follows:
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Section nine hundred and thirty-nine, Article four, Public Local Laws, re- lating to Baltimore City, sub-title " Water," as enacted by Chapter four hundred and sixty-seven, of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January Session, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be and the same is hereby repealed, and re-enacted so as to read as follows: 939. For the purpose of defraying all the ex- penses and costs of said lands, "waters and water" rights as shall have been taken for the purposes aforesaid, and of constructing all works necessary		Repealed.