FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Church in this State, and of the several vestries incorpo-

rated under the provisions of said act, require that all such

doubts should be removed ; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section two hundred and seventeen of arti-

Amend-

cle twenty-three of the Code of Public General Laws, title

ment.

"Corporations," sub-title "Religious Corporations," be,

aud the same is hereby repealed and re -enacted so as to

read as follows :

217. Nothing in this article shall prevent the Protestant

Episcopal Church from incorporating the vestries in the

Incorpora-
tion of

several parishes according to the usages of the said church,

Protestant

under the said act of seventeen hundred and ninety -eight,

Episcopal
Churches.

chapter twenty-four, entitled " An act for the establishment

of vestries for each parish in this State " as amended prior

to the adoption of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty ;

and the said act as so amended is hereby confirmed and

declared, as the law of this State, to be binding and availa-

ble as if the same and every provision thereof was herein

formally and specially recited and re-enacted

Provided, that all parishes heretofore coustituted uuder

the thirty-third section of said act may, and all parishes

Proviso

hereafter constituted under that said section of said act

shall, execute, acknowledge and record a certificate of their

articles of association, as such execution, acknowledgment

and record is now required under article twenty -three of the

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

title " Religious Corporations."

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the following new sec-

New

tion to be numbered 217 A, be, and the same is hereby

section

added to said article.

217 A. And all parishes heretofore constituted in pur-

Confirma-

suance of the provisions of said act, and all proceedings

tion of

therein held in pursuance of or by virtue of the powers and

parishes.

authority contained in said act shall be and the same are

fully confirmed and declared to be good and available both

iu law and in equity.

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

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.