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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 617.

AN ACT to declare and give the sanction and consent of the

General Assembly of Maryland to the devise and bequest con-

tained in the last will and testament of Edward Day, late of

Baltimore county, deceased, of ten shares of the capital stock

of the national farmers and merchants bank of Baltimore to

St. John's parish of Harford and Baltimore counties.

WHEREAS, Edward Day, late of Baltimore county, deceased, by

his last will and testament, bearing date the twenty-ninth day of

January, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, duly ad-

mitted to probate, and of record in the office of the register of

wills of Baltimore city, in liber D. M. P., number nineteen, folio-

one hundred and forty-two, &c., devised as follows, viz : for the

purpose of contributing towards the maintenance of divine worship
at the place aforesaid, I do hereby give and bequeath unto my son,
Ishmael Day, his executors, administrators or assigns, ten shares

of stock of the bank of farmers and merchants, standing on said

Preambe.

books in my name, in trust, that the Eector of St. John's parish

aforesaid, for the time being, shall have the right to receive all

dividends or interest which may arise from the same, so long as

he shall be the officiating minister in said parish of St. John's

and if any doubt should arise of the solvency of said bank, and

the bishop for the time being of the said protestant episcopal

church shall advise a sale of said stock, and an investment of the

value of said stock in some other safe and permanent institution

for the purpose aforesaid, I do hereby authorize the said Ishmael

Day, his executors, administrators or assigns, or any of them, to

sell said stock and make investment accordingly, he or they hav-

ing previously obtained the free consent of said bishop, to be first

obtained in writing; and,

WHEREAS, the said farmers and merchants bank since the

Preamble

making of said last will and testament, has become a national

bank under the act of the congress of the United States of

America, under the name and style of the national farmers and

merchants bank of Baltimore, and said ten shares of stock still

stand upon its books in the name of said Edward Day; therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the sanction and consent of the General Assembly of Mary-

land, be and the same is hereby given and declared to the devise

To sanc-

and bequest of said ten shares of the capital stock of the national

tion.

farmers and merchants bank of Baltimore, contained in and de-

vise by the last will and testament of Edward Day, late of Balti-

more county, deceased, liber wills D. M. P., member nineteen, folio

one hundred and forty-two, &c., to Ishmael Day, his executors,

administrators and assigns, in trust that the Eector of St. John's