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corporation duly incorporated by certificate, recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore county, shall have power to establish branches of the said University in the City of Balti- more, to hold, or to purchase and hold, all property in said city, needed for the successful conducting of the branches of the said university in said city, and to keep and maintain a principal office in said city for the conduct of the business of the said university.	Powers.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said " the Johns Hopkins University, " shall have power to admit students of the said University, who shall merit the distinction to the office and profession of surgeon, or to the degree of doctor of medicine, or of doctor of laws, or of bachelor, or master of arts; to grant to	Powers.
students in such university, such certificates of pro- ficiency and attainments in any special study, as the said university may see proper to confer; and to grant the honorary degrees of doctor of laws, doctor of medicine, and master of arts, or such other degrees as may be proper, to any person, who may merit such distinction, whether such person be a student of such university or not.	Grant certifi- cates.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from its passage. Approved March 22, 1876.	In force.

CHAPTER 85.

AN ACT to repeal chapter one hundred and ninety-
nine, of the acts passed January session eighteen
hundred and seventy-four, entitled "an act to
authorize the construction of tire-proof vaults in
the Court House in Easton, " and to enact the fol-
lowing in lieu thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That chapter one hundred and ninety-nine