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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Sanction given
to bequest.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That assent is hereby given to carry into
effect, the said bequest contained in the last will and

testament of Amelia Matthews, (colored,) late of the

City of Baltimore, deceased, in favor of the Rev. Mr.

Miller, Priest in charge of St. Francis Xavier, Roman

Catholic Church, located in Calvert street near

Pleasant street, in the City of Baltimore, or to his

successor in charge, for the use and benefit of said

church.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Rev. Peter

Authorized to

L. Miller, or his successor in charge of the said

receive.

clmrch as aforesaid, be and he is hereby "authorized

and empowered to receive from the executor of said

deceased, the said sum of three hundred dollars

bequeathed as aforesaid, and that the release of the

said Rev. Peter L. Miller, or his successor in charge

of said church, to said executor after payment of said

sum, shall be a full release of said bequest.

In force

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved, April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 240.

AN ACT to repeal the fifth section of the act of the

General Assembly of Maryland, passed at Jan-

uary session, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, chap-

ter one hundred and nine, entitled an act to

amend an act, entitled an act to incorporate the

Fremont Savings' Institution of Baltimore, by

allowing said Institution the privilege embraced

under the act entitled an act to continue the cor-

porate existence of the several banking institutions

therein mentioned, passed at January session,

eighteen hundred and fifty-three, chapter four

hundred and forty-one.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the fifth section of the act of the