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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or their assigns, by bill in the Circuit Court for Baltimore

Failed in its
creative pur-

County, sitting as a court of equity, alleging as a fact that the

pose.

said association has not held exhibitions for three successive

years as aforesaid, and has not held any exhibition for many

years past, and has failed in the purpose for which it was

created, and proving the facts so alleged to the satisfaction

of the courts, the said court shall have power, and is hereby

authorized and directed to decree a dissolution of the said

association, and to order a sale of the said land and the im-

provements thereon, to be made at public auction, by any of

the survivors of the said trustees, after giving bond and com-

plying with the terms usually imposed upon trustees to sell,

and in the event of there being no survivor or survivors at the

time of passing its decree for the said sale, it shall then appoint,

Sale to be

on the same terms for that purpose, one or more trustees in

made and

its discretion, who shall proceed forthwith to make the said

proceeds to
be divided.

sale, and said survivor or survivors, or substituted trustee or

trustees, shall divide the proceeds of the same, under the orders

and supervision of the court, among the parties entitled, and in

the proportions heretofore prescribed by the said Acts of As-

sembly, saving to the State its preferred claim of three thousand

dollars, as provided in the said Act of 1886.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts

inconsistent with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 25, 1907.

CHAPTER 142.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 217

of Article 15 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Kent

County," sub-title "Wild Fowl," and to add two new sections

to said Article to follow Section 217, and to be designated

as Sections 217A and 217B.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Protecting

land, That Section 217 of Article 15 of the Code of Public

wild fowl in
Kent County.

Local Laws, title "Kent County," sub-title "Wild Fowl," be

repealed and re-enacted, and to add two new sections to said

Article, to follow immediately after Section 217, to be desig-

nated as Sections 217A. and 217B, and to read as to the said

section re-enacted and said new section, respectively, as fol-

lows: