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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

land House of Correction for not less than three nor more

than six months, or both fine and imprisonment, in the discre-

tion of the court of justice.

Approved March 3, 1904.

CHAPTER 28.

AN ACT relating to Christ Church, Rock Spring, Harford

County, confirmatory of incorporation and corporate acts

and powers.

WHEREAS, The record of incorporation of the congrega-

Ratification of

tion of Christ Church, Rock Spring, Harford County, has

an old record
of incorpora-

become unable to be found and, therefore, said congregation

tion.

has been incorporated under the general incorporation laws of

the State, although said congregation has been an organized

body since at least the year 1805, and has maintained its regu-

lar church organization as a congregation of the Protestant

Episcopal Church in the State of Maryland by the annual

election of its vestries, participation and membership in the

Diocesan Convention of that Church in the State, and has been

recognized by the Protestant Episcopal Church authorities of

the State as a regularly organized and incorporated church

congregation, and for the purpose of ratifying and confirming

its former acts and investing them with full authority in law.

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

Declarations of

land that Christ Church, Rock Spring, Harford County, in

incorporation.

St. John's Parish, be and the same is hereby declared to have

been and to be a regularly organized and incorporated body

of the State of Maryland, and that all the acts of the said

vestry of said church in relation to the tenure, sale and con-

veyance of property of whatever description held or sold and

conveyed by them be and the same are ratified, confirmed and

established as valid and sufficient in law.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 3, 1904.

CHAPTER 29.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the County Commissioners

of Washington County to refund to Mrs. Clara Hamilton,