FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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boards of supervisors, sample printed forms of ballots for

their assistance in the preparation of the ballots by them,

Appropria-

and also prepare and cause to be printed in clear, large

tion,

type, on separate cards, to be called cards of instructions,

at the expense of the State, and transmit to said respective

boards of supervisors full instructions for the guidance of

voters as to obtaining ballots, the manner of marking them,

the method of gaining assistance, and the manner of

obtaining new ballots, in place of those accidentally

spoiled, together with copies of sections 162 to 166, inclu-

sive, to the number of ten for each polling place, and the

sum of one thousand dollars per annum, or as much thereof

as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any

funds in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the

employment of clerical help to assist at the executive

department in preparing and attending to election business

hereby assigned to the executive office.

Approved April 4th, 1892.

CHAPTER 326.

AN ACT to extend the charter of Mount Savage Lodge

number forty -three, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,

granted by the General Assembly of Maryland at its De-

cember session, eighteen hundred and forty-four, chapter

two hundred and ninety-three, and to grant additional

power to said corporation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, That the provisions of an act

passed at the December session, eighteen hundred and forty-

Continued

four, chapter two hundred and ninety-three, entitled an act

in force.

for the incorporation of Mount Savage Lodge number forty-

three of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in the State

of Maryland, be and the same is hereby extended and con-

tinued in force for the period of forty years from the date of

its expiration in March, eighteen hundred and seven ty -five,

and until the close of the session of the next General

Assembly held, therefore,

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts of said corpora-

tion done by it in its corporate capacity since the expiration

Acts made
valid.

of its charter in March, eighteen hundred and seventy-five,

be and the same are hereby made as good and valid as the

same would have been had said charter been in force at the

time of doing said act.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall

be capable in law to have, receive, and retain to it, and its

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