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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

to be first elected shall serve for the period of two

years from the first Monday of April next, and the

Trustees to be thereafter elected shall serve from

the end of said term, and so on thereafter at the end

of two years they shall be elected, and that they shall

serve until a new election ; and that in case of any

vacancy in any Board of Trustees, the remaining

acting Trustees may fill up the same until the next

stated election ; and whereas, ever since the adoption

of said amendments the said Central Presbyterian

Church has been acting thereunder, and has been

electing biennially and at the time therein specified,

the number of Trustees for the management of its

temporal concerns as fixed by said amendments ; and

whereas it has been recently discovered that through

inadvertance, the said amendments have never been

recorded as required by law, therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Itccord amend-

Maryland, That the Clerk of the Superior Court of

ments

Baltimore city be, and he is hereby, authorized and

directed upon payment to him of the fees allowed

by law, for services of a like nature pertaining to his

office, to record among the charter records of said

city, the above recited amendments to the original

plan, agreement or regulation for the incorporation

of the said Cenjtral Presbyterian Church of the City

of Baltimore, being the same amendments which

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were adopted by said church, at the congregational

meeting held on the fifth day of May, Anno Domini

eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and on the thirtieth day

of March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-

seven, respectively as above set forth.

Full force and

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said amendments

validity.

when so recorded, and all acts of the congregation

of said church heretofore done in pursuance of the

same, and all acts of the Trustees heretofore elected

in accordance with the provisions of said amend-

ments, shall have the same force and validity in all

respects which they would have had if the said

amendments had been duly acknowledged, certified

and recorded according to law, within six months

after the adoption of the same, respectively.

In force.

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

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved this 27th day of March, 1874.