EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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the State of Maryland, a certificate of which qualification shall

be recorded on the minutes of the proceedings of the board of

trustees.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That the said board of trustes be

and they are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into

Empowered to
cuter into

contracts with the County Commissioners of Washington

contracts.

County, and the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown provid-

ing for the receipt of revenues, in perpetuity, in aid of said

hospital.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the real and personal es-

tate authorized by this Act to be held by the said "The Wash-

ington County Hospital Association," for the uses and pur-

Tax exemption

poses herein provided for, shall be exempt from all State,

county and municipal taxes so long as the same shall be used

for the purposes herein mentioned.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from and after the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER 235.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 24

of Article i of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,

entitled "Allegany County/' sub-title "Circuit Court," regu-

lating the terms of court in Allegany County, and providing

for the employment of stenographers therein.

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

land, That Section 24 of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local

Allegany

Laws of Maryland be and the same is hereby repealed and re-

County Cir-
cuit Court.

enacted so as to read as follows :

24. There shall be four regular common law terms of the

Circuit Court for Allegany County held at Cumberland, three

of which shall be jury terms and one of which shall be a non-

jury term. The three jury terms shall commence as follows:

Jury and non-

On the first Monday in January, the second Monday in April,

jury terms of
court.

and the first Monday in October, respectively, in each year ;

and to each of said terms juries shall be summoned and re-

turned in the mode and manner prescribed by law ; and the

remaining term of said court shall commence on the first Thurs-

day of July in each year, to which no jury shall be sum-

moned; and said court shall transact thereat any business