PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 977

Frederick county, Maryland, $175.00, and $50.00. (d) To
the George W. and Agnes Hoffman Orphanage, of the Synod
of the Potomac Reformed Church of the United States, located
in Mt. Joy township, Adams county, Penn., the residue of said
estate.

"76. To the gift, grant, bequest and devise contained in
the last will and testament and codicil thereto of Mary V. Cox,
late of Queen Anne's county, Maryland, deceased, and recorded
among the wills records of said Queen Anne's county in Liber
R. W. T. No. 1, folio 258, etc., to the Commissioners of Sud-
lersville, a municipal corporation of said Queen Anne's county,
for the purposes and under the terms and conditions set forth
in said will.

"77. To the sale, grant and deed of a lot in Baltimore City
on the east side of Linden avenue, by Mary C. Patterson, to
the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph's, a body corporate, dated
January 3rd, 1903, and recorded among the Land Records of
Baltimore City, in Liber R. O. No. 1994, folio 363, etc.

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

Approved April 11, 1912.

CHAPTER 655.

AN ACT to authorize the Commissioners of Thurmont, in Fred-
erick county, to borrow an amount not exceeding the sum of
four thousand dollars for the purpose of purchasing and hav-
ing installed an engine or other power, auxiliary to the water
power now used in running and operating the electric light-
ing plant of said town, and to issue the bonds or notes of said
Commissioners of Thurmont, a municipal body corporate,
for the amount so borrowed.

WHEREAS, It is represented that the Commissioners of Thur-
mont did purchase and take over the electric light and power
plant authorized to be purchased and taken over by the Act
of the General Assembly of Maryland of the Session of 1910,
Chapter 9, and which plant is run by water power furnished
by Big Hunting Creek; and,

WHEREAS, Said plant has been satisfactory in furnishing light
to said town and the citizens thereof, except during a pro-
tracted drought in 1910 and a shorter drought in 1911, when