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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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to be first elected shall serve for the period of two
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years from the first Monday of April next, and the
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Trustees to be thereafter elected shall serve from
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the end of said term, and so on thereafter at the end
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of two years they shall be elected, and that they shall
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serve until a new election ; and that in case of any
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vacancy in any Board of Trustees, the remaining
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acting Trustees may fill up the same until the next
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stated election ; and whereas, ever since the adoption
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of said amendments the said Central Presbyterian
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Church has been acting thereunder, and has been
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electing biennially and at the time therein specified,
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the number of Trustees for the management of its
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temporal concerns as fixed by said amendments ; and
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whereas it has been recently discovered that through
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inadvertance, the said amendments have never been
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recorded as required by law, therefore —
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Itccord amend-
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Maryland, That the Clerk of the Superior Court of
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ments
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Baltimore city be, and he is hereby, authorized and
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directed upon payment to him of the fees allowed
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by law, for services of a like nature pertaining to his
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office, to record among the charter records of said
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city, the above recited amendments to the original
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plan, agreement or regulation for the incorporation
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of the said Cenjtral Presbyterian Church of the City
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of Baltimore, being the same amendments which
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were adopted by said church, at the congregational
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meeting held on the fifth day of May, Anno Domini
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eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and on the thirtieth day
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of March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-
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seven, respectively as above set forth.
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Full force and
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said amendments
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validity.
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when so recorded, and all acts of the congregation
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of said church heretofore done in pursuance of the
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same, and all acts of the Trustees heretofore elected
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in accordance with the provisions of said amend-
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ments, shall have the same force and validity in all
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respects which they would have had if the said
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amendments had been duly acknowledged, certified
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and recorded according to law, within six months
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after the adoption of the same, respectively.
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In force.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
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effect from the date of its passage.
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Approved this 27th day of March, 1874.
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