ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 157

CHAPTER 102.

AN ACT to amend An Act, entitled An Act to
incorporate the Home Missionary Society of the
Maryland Annual Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church, passed at December Session,
eighteen hundred and sixty, chapter thirty-five.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Section Second of said Act, be and the same is hereby repealed, and the following enacted in lieu thereof; ,	Repealed and re-enacted.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of sending and supporting Ministers of the Gospel as Home Missionaries, within the bounds of the Maryland Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. The Home Missionary Society of said Conference, incorporated by this Act, is hereby made able and capable in law to have, hold, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain to them and their successors, any estate, or interest what- ever in lands, chattels, annuities, rents, bank stock, registered debts, public or private securi- ties, or other real, or personal property within or without the State, by deed, assignment, devise, bequest, or other mode of conveyance, or transfer of it from any person or persons, bodies politic, or	To hold or purchase.
corporate, having legal capability to make such transfer or conveyance, and the same, at their pleasure to improve, lease, rent, incumber, dispose of or aliene in such manner as they may judge most conducive to the benevolent purposes of said Society; Provided, that the annual income of such property or estate shall not exceed twenty thou- sand dollars.	Convey.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the day of its passage. Approved, March 31, 1870.	In force.