ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 363

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Howard W. Jackson, Mayor of Baltimore;
E. Lester Muller, President of the City Council; B. Howell
Griswold, Jr.. Sarah W. Walters, John J. Nelligan, Robert
Garrett, A. R. L. Dohme, C. Morgan Marshall and Philip B.
Perlman, and their successors, be and they are hereby con-
stituted and created a body corporate under the laws of
the State of Maryland under the name of the Trustees of
Walters Art Gallery.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the purpose of
the corporation shall be to have and exercise full and com-
plete control over the real properties and contents given (o
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore by Henry Walters,
late of Baltimore City, deceased, under and by virtue of
the provisions of his last will and testament, for the ben-
efit of the public; and to have and exercise full and com-
plete control over the expenditure of the income from the
endowment fund given by Henry Walters, under and by
virtue of the provisions of his last will and testament, for
the purpose of maintaining the Walters Art Gallery, in the
City of Baltimore, State of Maryland, for the benefit of
the public; it being intended that the corporation created
by this Act shall be the agency of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore through which the directions and in-
tent of Henry Walters shall be obeyed, and his objects
realized.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Cor-
poration shall have power to agree with the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore as to the terms, conditions and pro-
visions under which the real properties, art treasures and
income will be managed and administered by said Corpora-
tion for the benefit of the public, and the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore is hereby authorized and empowered
to enter into such an agreement as it may deem advisable,
the said Corporation is hereby authorized and empowered
to exercise any of the powers which may have been and
which may hereafter be conferred upon it by any ordinance
of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and especially
the powers granted in Ordinance of* the Mayor and City
Council No. 400, approved March 8th, 1933.
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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Cor-
poration shall be governed by a board of nine trustees, of
whom one shall always be the Mayor of Baltimore, for the
time being; one shall be the President of the City Council,