JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 703

Board of Public Works of the State, such bond or
bonds as they may approve, conditioned for the
faithful performance of the work; and that a sum
equal to not less than twenty per cent, of the whole
cost of said buildings or improvements, shall be re-
tained by the Treasurer from the amount to be paid
under said contract for the erection and final com-
pletion of the same, until the acceptance and approval
of said contract by the said Board of Public Works
of the State.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage, and all acts or	In force
parts of acts inconsistent herewith, be and the same
are hereby repealed.
Approved April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 471.
AN ACT to repeal the act of Assembly, of eighteen
hundred and fifty-eight, chapter thirteen, passed
February the tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-
eight, entitled, " an act, amendatory of the act of
Assembly, passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and thirty four, chapter eighty-seven, en-
titled, an act to incorporate " the Trustees of the
Education Fund, of the Baltimore Annual Confer-
ence," and to re-enact the same with amendments.
WHEREAS, The East Baltimore Conference has
ceased to exist, and nearly all the territory occupied	Preamble
by said conference, has now become incorporated in
the Baltimore Annual Conference, by reason whereof
it has become proper to repeal said act of eighteen
hundred and fifty-eight, chapter thirteen, and to re-
enact said act of eighteen hundred and thirty-four,
chapter eighty-seven, therefore —