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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

seventy-four, and which is of record in the office of

Register of Wills for said county, made sundry be-

quests to churches and benevolent societies, which,

under the thirty-eighth article of the bill of rights, a

part of the Constitution of this State,' are void with-

out the sanction of the Legislature ; and, whereas,

the said bequests will promote the best interests of

many, without prejudice to the public welfare ; there-

fore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Sanction given

Maryland, That the bequests made by the said Tem-

to bequest of
Temperance

perance Bradshaw, deceased, by her last will and

Bradshaw.

testament, and the codicils thereto, of five hundred

dollars to the Missionary Society of the Methodist

Episcopal Church, incorporated by an act of the

Legislature of the State of New York, on or about

the ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-

nine, and of five hundred dollars to the American

Bible Society, formed in New York, in the year

eighteen hundred and sixteen, and of two hundred

dollars to the Tract Society of the Methodist Epis-

copal Church, and of five hundred dollars to the

Trustees of Bond Chapel, in Quaker Neck, in Kent

county, and their successors, and of three hundred

dollars to the Trustees of Salem Methodist Episcopal

Church on Kent Circuit, and their successors, and of

ten dollars to the colored peoples' new Methodist

Episcopal Church in Chestertown, and of twenty-

five dollars to Reverend J. B. Quigg, for the Wil-

mington Conference Academy, and of portions of

her furniture, and fifteen hundred dollars to be paid

by Charles H. Baker, and the residue of her estate

left after all other bequests are provided for, to the

Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of

Chestertown, in Kent county, Maryland, and. the

successors of said trustees, in trust, as to the furni-

ture, the same to be for the use of the parsonage of

the Methodist Episcopal Church in Chestertown,

and in trust, as to the money, the same to be applied

to the erection of a new Methodist Episcopal Church

in said town, be, and the same are hereby sanctioned.

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

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved, March 26th, 1874.