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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That John S. Purnell,

Robert I. Henry, H. R. Pitts, William D. Pitts,

Cyrus L. Williams, Littleton P. Franklin, L. D.

Exercise all

Powell, John R. Purnell, John T. Hammond, Leven.

the rights, &c.

L. Dirickson and Zadok P. Henry, the present Board

of Trustees, shall exercise all the rights, privileges

and powers conferred by said act upon the original

Board of Trustees, and shall meet at least once in

every two years, at such time or times as they may

designate by ordinance, to carry out the provisions

of said act.

In force

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

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved, April 2d, 1874.

CHAPTER 193.

AN ACT to provide for the relinqnishment to the

United States, in certain cases, of title to and juris-

diction over Jands for sites of light-houses, bea-

cons, and other aids to navigation, and for the pro-

tection of beacons, buoys, and floating guides on

the coast, and in the waters of this State.

Consent given

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the consent of the State be, and the

same is hereby given to the purchase by the Gover-

ment of the United States, or under the authority of

the same, of any tract, piece, or parcel of land not ex-

ceeding five acres, from any individual or individ-

uals, bodies politic or corporate within the boundaries

or limits of the State, for the purpose of erecting

thereon light-houses, beacons and other aids to naviga-

tion ; and all deeds and conveyances of title papers for
the same shall be recorded, as in other cases, upon the

land records of the county in which the land so con-

veyed may lie ; the consent herein and hereby given

being in accordance with the seventeenth clause of