ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 338.

AN ACT to provide for indexing the land records of Caroline

county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the clerk of the circuit court for Caroline county, be and he

is hereby authorized to cause a general index to the land records

in his office from the year seventeen hundred and seventy-four,

to the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to be made under the

Index.

system known as the " Campbell System," to be paid for by the

county commissioners for Caroline county; provided, however,

that the total cost of said indexing shall not exceed the sum of

six hundred dollars, and that no part of said sum shall be paid

until the whole work shall be fully done to the satisfaction of the

county commissioners.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the General Assembly, That the

county commissioners for Caroline county are hereby authorized
and directed to levy on the assessable property of said county to

Levy.

pay for the work provided above; provided, they shall first ascer-

tain that the indexing has been done.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTER 339.

AN ACT to repeal sub-section class one, of section fourteen, of

article twenty-three, of the Code of Public General Laws, en-

titled "Corporations ;" and sub-section three, of section forty-

two, of the same article; also section forty-seven of the same

article, and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That class one, of section fourteen, sub-section three, of section

Repeal.

forty-two, and section forty-seven, of article twenty-three, of the

Code of Public General Laws, be and the same hereby are repealed

and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

CLASS 1. For the creation and maintenance of educational,

moral, scientific, literary, dramatic, musical, social, benevolent or

beneficial societies or associations of all descriptions of religious

or charitable societies or associations, fire-engines and hose com-

Societies.

panies, and of uniformed volunteer companies of universities,

colleges, academies, hospitals or asylums, provided such corpora-

tions are located in this State, and that the property which they

possess or acquire is located therein, but corporations formed for