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testate of no remoter degrees among collaterals than brothers' or sisters'
children, shall at any time appear and prove him, her or themselves to
be such legal representatives, the Board of School Commissioners who
received such estate, or their successors, if the same shall be in their
hands or shall have been applied to the use of the public schools, shall
restore the same to such legal representatives out of the school fund under
their direction.

P. L. L. (1860), Art 4, sec. 834. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 786.

813. Nothing contained in this sub-division of this Article shall be
construed to interfere with or affect the rights vested in the Charitable
Marine Society of Baltimore.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.

1876, ch. 84. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 787.

814. The Johns Hopkins University, a corporation duly incorporated
by certificate recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Baltimore County shall have power to establish branches of the said
university in the City of Baltimore, to hold, or to purchase and hold,
all property in said city, needed for the successful conducting of the
branches of the said university in said city, and to keep and maintain a
principal office in said city for the conduct of the business of the said
university.

1876, ch. 84. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 789.

815. The said Johns Hopkins University shall have power to admit
students of the said university who shall merit distinction to the office
and profession of surgeon, or to the degree of doctor of medicine, or of
doctor of laws, or of bachelor or master of arts; to grant to students in
such university such certificates of proficiency and attainments in any
special study as the said university may see proper to confer; and to grant
the honorary degrees of doctor of laws, doctor of medicine, and master of
arts, or such other degrees as may be proper, to any person who may
merit such distinction, whether such person be a student of such university
or not.

McDONOGH EDUCATIONAL FUND AND INSTITUTE AND
OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

1888, ch. 102. P. L. L. (1S88), Art. 4, sec. 789.

816. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is authorized, upon
the transfer and surrender to it, by the Board of Trustees of the Mc-
Donogh Educational Fund and Institute, of the city stock or certificates
of indebtedness, in which the said educational fund is now, under the
city ordinances, invested, in consideration of such transfer and sur-
render, to issue and deliver to the said Board of Trustees, the stock or