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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That upon application
the Circuit Court of Baltimore city, or any court in
this State having equity jurisdiction, is hereby au-

Authorized to
pass an order.

thorized empowered to pass an order directing the
transfer, assignment or payment of the trust funds,
moneys and properties of said cestui que trusts to any
other trustee or trustees as specified and mentioned

Proviso.

in the first section of this act; provided, said court
before passing the order as aforesaid, shall be of
opinion that it would be to the interest and advant-
age of the cestui que trusts, that said transfer should
be made, and the court shall further be satisfied that
said new trustee has properly bonded and been quali-
fied as .said trustee.

Good and suf-
ficient release.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the receipt and re-
lease of the trustee or trustees properly authenticated
to whom the said trust moneys, properties and effects
of the cestui qui trusts shall or may have been paid
over, assigned or transferred, in virtue of the order
or decree of the said Circuit Court of Baltimore city,
or by any other court of competent jurisdiction in
this State, or any judge thereof, shall be a good and
sufficient release to the trustee so paying over, trans-
ferring or assigning said trust moneys, properties
and effects of said trust estate, to the extent and to
the amount so transferred, assigned or paid over.

In force

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its approval.

Approved April 7, 1876.

CHAPTER 246.

AN ACT to enable Frances L. McDonald and Mary
Jay Frankland, of England, to take and hold cer-
tain lands lying in Charles county, Maryland,
which were held by Frederick Dawson, late of said
State, in trust, for certain parties in said act named.

WHEREAS, Frederick Dawson, late of Baltimore
county, Maryland, a naturalized citizen of the United