WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 217.

AN ACT to provide for the dissolution of the

Shelter for " Orphans of Colored Soldiers and

Friendless Children of Baltimore city," by au-

thorizing it to grant, convey and apply all its

property, or the proceeds thereof, to and for the

use of the " Shelter for Aged and Infirm Col-

ored Persons of Baltimore city."

WHEREAS by reason of the establishment cf a

colored orphan asylum, endowed by the will of

the late Johns Hopkins of Baltimore city, with

property amply sufficient for the maintenance and

training of orphans of colored soldiers and friend-

less children, the annual subscriptions, by which

alone the " Shelter for Orphans of Colored Sol-

diers and Friendless Children of Baltimore city"

Preamble.

was maintained have almost entirely ceased, and

the last mentioned corporation has become in-

capable of fulfilling the purposes for which it was

incorporated; and whereas it is therefor desirable

that the said last mentioned corporation should be

dissolved, and that its property, or the proceeds

thereof, should be transferred to the " Shelter for

Aged and Infirm Colored Persons of Baltimore

city," a corporation duly incorporated under the

General Laws of this State. Therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the " Shelter for Orphans of

Colored Soldiers and Friendless Children of Bal-

timore city " be and it is hereby authorized and

empowered to sell and convey all or any part of

Empowered
to sell and con-

its real or personal property as it may see fit; and

vey.

to convey and transfer to the " Shelter for Aged

and Infirm Colored Persons of Baltimore city "

the proceeds of any of the property it may sell as

aforesaid, together with all other real and per-

sonal property, money and choses in action, which

may belong to the said " Shelter for Orphans of

Colored Soldiers and Friendless Children of Bal-

timore city."