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and upon such terms as may be fixed by the State
Treasurer, and the State Treasurer, by and with the con-
sent of the Board of Public Works, is hereby empowered
at any time after the first payment on account to compro-
mise or cancel any sum or sums remaining unpaid by the
purchaser of said stocks and bonds so sold by the State
Treasurer.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and having been passed by yea and nay vote, supported by
three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1933.

CHAPTER 238.

AN ACT to declare the sanction and consent of the General
Assembly of Maryland to sundry gifts, bequests and de-
vises contained in the last wills and testaments of cer-
tain persons, deceased, and also to certain gifts, grants,
sales, leases and deeds made by various persons to and
for the use and benefit of sundry ministerial persons, re-
ligious corporations, vestries, educational and charitable
institutions, churches, denominations or sects hereinafter
named.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the sanction and consent of said General
Assembly of Maryland be and the same is hereby declared,
given and granted to the following gifts, bequests, devises,
grants, sales, leases, conveyances and deeds, to and from
certain persons and bodies corporate to and for the use of
certain ministerial persons, religious and educational cor-
porations, orders, denominations and sects, and to certain
charitable institutions hereinafter named as herein set
forth:

To the conveyance contained in a deed from The Trustees
of the Madison Square Centenary Methodist Episcopal
Church in the City of Baltimore to The Most Reverend
Michael J. Curley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Balti-