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	crease said salary or to give any extra compensation to the said clerk for any work he may do in his office.
	SEO. 2. Be it enacted, That all acts and parts of
	acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be	Repealed.
	and the same are hereby repealed.
	SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
	effect from the date of its passage.
	Approved February 14, 1878.

	CHAPTER 26.
	AN ACT to give the assent of the General Assem-
	bly to a devise in the will of Frances Thomson,
	feme sole, late of Washington county, deceased, to
	the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Ha-
	gerstown, in said county.
	Whereas Frances Thompson, feme sole, late of
	Washington county, deceased, by her last will and
	testament, bearing date the third day of May, in the
	year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six,
	and duly admitted to probate by the Orphans' Court
	for said county, on the fifth day of December then
	next following, devised her undivided interest upon certain conditions to her sister for life, or during oc-	Preamble.
	cupancy, and after that, her said interest should be
	sold, " And the net proceeds thereof I hereby devise
	and bequeath to the Trustees of the Presbyterian
	Church of Hagerstown, in said town, county and
	state, and their successors forever, to be by them se-
	curely invested, and the interest or dividends to arise
	therefrom shall be applied to the annual salary or
	support of the pastor or minister of the congrega-
	tion of said Presbyterian Church ;" and
	Whereas the said " the Trustees of the Presby-
	terian Church of Hagerstown " are a body corpor-	Preamble.
	ate under the laws of this State, and are so compe-
	tent to take under said devise :
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly
	of Maryland, That the assent of the Legislature of