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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

leges conferred upon the convention of the Protest-

ant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Maryland,

by the act amendatory of the original act for the

Explained
and extended

incorporation of said convention, passed December
session, eighteen hundred and forty, chapter sixty-

seven, and which said amendatory act was passed

January session, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, chap-

ter seventeen, be and the same are hereby explained

and extended so as to enable the said convention to re-

Receive gifts,
&c.

ceive by gift, devise or otherwise, contributions in

money, lands or other property, and to hold the same
for burial grounds, church colleges, church or parish

schools, for the support of missionaries and mission

work, for building, adorning or repairing churches

or mission chapels, and for such other general or

special religious or charitable work or agencies within

the said diocese, and now or hereafter under the juris-

diction, control or sanction of the said convention, as.

maybe designated by the donor, with the same power

in regard to the administration of the respective

funds so arising, and subject to the same proviso con-

tained in the amendatory act above mentioned.

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

effect from the day when an official certificate of its.

acceptance by said convention shall be filed with the

When effec-
tive.

Secretary of State ; provided, however, that this act

shall not be so construed as to interfere with the

rights of any person under a proper legal instruction

of any act or law in force at the time of the passage.

of this act.

Approved April 5, 1878.