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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 344.

AN ACT supplementary to an act passed at Jan-

uary session, eighteen hundred and seventy, chap-

ter one hundred and sixty-eight, entitled an

additional supplement to an act to incorporate the

Roman Catholic Congregation in Baltimore town,

passed November session, seventeen hundred and

ninety-five, chapter fifteen, to enable the said cor-

poration to purchase a new burial ground.

WHEREAS, by the act of the General Assembly,

passed at January session, eighteen hundred and

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seventy, chapter one hundred and sixty-eight, the

Trustees of the Catholic Cathedral Church of Balti-

more, and their successors, were authorized and

empowered, in addition to the ground and promises

which the said corporation was authorized to pur-

chase and use as a burial ground, by the act of

eighteen hundred and fourteen, chapter two, and

eighteen hundred and forty-five, chapter three hun-

dred and eighty-four, to purchase, hold and use for

a burial ground attached to said church, any lands

and premises in Baltimore county not exceeding one

hundred acres; and —

WHEREAS, in part performance of the authority

and power conferred as aforesaid, said corporation

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has purchased lands situated and King in Baltimore

county, on the northernmost side of the old Freder-

ick Road, and part of a tract of land called Bonnie

Brae; said lands containing sixty-four acres, one

rood and fifteen square "perches, and particularly

described by metes and bounds in a deed from

Charles H. McBlair and wife, to William Kennedy

and others, dated November the tenth, eighteen hun-

dred and sixty-nine, and recorded among the land

records of Baltimore county, in liber E. H. A., num-

ber sixty-four, folio three hundred and twenty-eight,

&c., and has expended, and is about further to expend

large sums of money in adapting the said lands to

the purposes of a cemetery ; and —

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WHEREAS, it is proper that said corporation should

be encouraged in its laudable design, and that the.