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of said County, may pass any account or claim against the estate of a deceased person for any amount not exceeding one hundred dollars, and on the return of any inventory of the personal estate of a deceased person, may pass an order for a public sale of the property contained therein, in a case where, by law, said Court could have passed such order.	May pass ac- counts against estates of de- ceased persons
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 31, 1870.	In force.

CHAPTER 153.

AN ACT to enlarge the power of The Maryland
Baptist Union Association, in relation to the
holding of property; the said Association hav-
ing been incorporated for religious purposes
under the Act of the General Assembly of the-
State of Maryland, passed at its December Ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and forty-six, chapter
three hundred and twenty-three, entitled " An
Act to authorize incorporations in certain eases.

WHEREAS, The Maryland Baptist Union Asso- ciation was duly incorporated under and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland, passed at its December Session, eighteen hundred and forty-six, chapter three hun- dred and twenty-three, entitled An Act to au- thorize Incorporations in certain cases;

Preamble.

AND WHEREAS, By said Act the property which the said Maryland Baptist Union Association is allowed to hold, is limited to the sum of ten thou- sand dollars; and whereas, the said sum is not sufficient to carry out and perform the objects and designs of said Association, therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Maryland Baptist Union Association shall be able and capable to take, hold

Property lim- ited.