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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Orphans' Court of said Montgomery county, and re-

corded in the office of the Register of Wills of said

Preamble.

county, bequeath said sum of five hundred dollars to
said Vestry of Prince George's Parish, to be invest-

ed by them, and the annual interest thereon applied
to the support of the Rector in charge of Christ

Church in said Parish :

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the bequest of five hundred dol-

lars, made to the Vestry of Prince George's Parish,

in Montgomery county, by the last will and testa-

ment of Ursula Wilcoxen, late of said county, de-

Bequest sanc-

ceased, be and the same is hereby sanctioned, con-

tioned.

firmed and made valid, and the said Vestry be and

they are hereby authorized and empowered to take

and receive said sum of five hundred dollars, and

hold the same subject to the provisions of said will.

Not to effect.

This act is in no manner to effect the legal construc-

tion of the said will and testament, or impair any

rights of the devisees or legatees, but its intendment

is simply to relieve the said Christ Church, Prince

George's Parish, from the constitutional prohibition

now existingunder article thirty-eight of the Dec-

laration of Rights, only conferring upon the said

Christ Church, Prince George's Parish, such rights,

and none others, to assert its claims to the said legacy

as it would possess did no such constitutional pro-

hibition exist.

Approved February 21, 1878.

CHAPTER 44.

AN ACT for the better protection of insectivorous

birds in Somerset county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That it shall be unlawful hereafter

Unlawful.

for any person, at any time, to shoot or otherwise

kill or injure any of the following named birds within

the limits of Somerset county, viz.: Blue bird, thrush,

martin, swallow, mocking bird, oriole, red bird, spar-
row, whippoorwill, wren, goldfinch, sapsucker, swamp