106 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 51]

ton had paid taxes on the said excess sum of $1,000 for the
years 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908 and 1909
to the Treasurer of Harford County and during said years
the State tax on said excess sum amounts to the sum of fif-
teen dollars and fifteen cents ($15.15); therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is hereby
authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer
of the State in favor of the estate of the said William S. B.
Preston, deceased, for the sum of fifteen dollars and fifteen
cents ($15.15), the same being the amount of money paid by
the said William S. B. Preston as State taxes to the Treasurer
of Harford County for the years 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906,
1907, 1908, and 1909, upon the sum of one thousand dollars in
excess of the proper amount of his assessment for that purpose,
the said sum to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 27, 1912.

CHAPTER 51.

AN ACT to grant and declare the sanction and consent of the
General Assembly of Maryland to the gift and conveyance by
J. Wilson Leakin to the Franklin Street Presbyterian Con-
gregation, in the City of Baltimore, of a certain lot of ground,
together with an irredeemable ground rent issuing thereout,
in the City of Baltimore, and to the holding of said lot by the
said Franklin Street Presbyterian Congregation in the City

of Baltimore.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sanction and consent" of the General Assembly of
Maryland be and the same is hereby declared, given and granted
to the gift and grant by J. Wilson Leakin to the Franklin Street
Presbyterian Congregation in the City of Baltimore, a body
corporate, duly incorporated under the laws of the State of
Maryland, of a lot of ground situated in the City of Baltimore
at the northwest corner of Centre street and Calvert street, and
fully described in a deed from the said J. Wilson Leakin to the