WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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the entire loss as the siirn by it insured shall bear to

the aggregate amount of the sums mentioned to be

insured in all the policies so obtained on the same

property; and provided, that in case of such other

insurance any exception from insurance contained

In case of ex-
ception.

in any other policy so obtained shall be considered

as also contained in the said Baltimore Equitable

Society's policy, although not therein expressed or

originally intended to be expressed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the limits of in-

surance of the said corporation are hereby extended

Limits ex-
tended.

so as to embrace the whole of the State of Mary-

land.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That nothing herein

contained shall be construed or have the effect to

limit or restrict any of the powers or rights con-

How con-

ferred upon the said corporation by its said act of

strued.

incorporation, the supplement thereto passed at No-

vember session, eighteen hundred and one, chapter

thirty-five, and the further supplements thereto, or

which it has exercised or may exercise thereunder.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 259.

AN ACT giving the sanction of the General Assem-

bly of Maryland to the several legacies contained

in the last will and testament of Alexius E. Smith,

late of Frederick county, deceased, viz: To "The

Memorial Evangelical Lutheran Church of Wash-

ington, in the District of Columbia," to "The

Board of Home Missions of the General Synod of

the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the United

States," and to "The Evangelical Lutheran Church

of Frederick."

WHEREAS Alexius E. Smith, late of Frederick

county, deceased, did, by his last will and testament,

Preamble.

dated on the sixteenth day of July, in the year