FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds within

this State in the same manner as deeds are acknowledged,

or acknowledged as certified.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 664.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section-

two hundred and eleven of article twenty-three of the-

Code of Public General Laws, title "Corporations "sub-

title, " Religious Corporations."

SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland. That section two hundred and eleven of article

Repealed

twenty-three of the Code of Public General Laws be and

the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-

ments, as follows :

211. The said plan, agreement or regulation shall be

entered in the book hereinafter required by section 214, to be

Religious

kept by every such corporation, and thesame shall be acknowl-

corpora-
tions.

edged by the trustees, or a majority of them, before a justice

of the peace, a notary public, or a judge of the Circuit Court

in the counties, or a judge of the supreme bench of Baltimore

City ; and such justice, notary, or judge shall append to said

instrument a certificate of such acknowledgment, and in

all cases where through inadvertence or mistake, such

plan, agreement, or regulation has been heretofore acknowl-

edged before one justice of the peace instead of two, such

acknowledgment shall be and is hereby made, to all intents

and purposes, good and sufficient for the incorporation of

the church, society or congregation named therein.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.