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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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Chapter 131.
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AN ACT to amend and enlarge the powers granted
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by the act entitled "An act to provide a fund for
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the relief of the Widows and Children of the
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Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
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State of Maryland," passed November session, seven-
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teen hundred and eighty-four, chapter seventy-eight.
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WHEREAS, in the period of one hundred years, since
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the passage of the act herein referred to, the number
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of persons to be benefited by the corporation, thereby
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created has largely increased, and their needs and
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necessities have multiplied in various forms; and
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Preamble.
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although the ability of the corporation to meet those
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wants has also increased, it yet requires further en-
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largement and more liberty in the use of its income
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in order thoroughly to accomplish the various char-
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itable purposes that may be subserved thereby; there-
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fore —
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
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of Maryland, That the proviso in the act entitled
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" An act to provide a fund for the relief of the widows
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and children of the clergy of the Protestant Episco-
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pal Church in the State of Maryland," passed Novem-
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ber session, seventeen hundred and eighty-four, chapter
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seventy-eight, which limits the clean yearly value of
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the capital fund, stock and other hereditaments and
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Repealed.
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real estate of the corporation thereby created to a sum
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not exceeding fifteen thousand Spanish milled dollars
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of the then current weight of seventeen pennyweight
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and six grains, each dollar above all taxes and assess-
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ments, be and the same is hereby repealed, and the
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said corporation is hereby authorized to hold such
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funds, stocks and other hereditaments and real estate as
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authorized by the act aforesaid, provided that the net
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income arising from the same shall not exceed the sum
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of fifty thousand dollars per annum.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be compe-
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Admit new
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tent for the said corporation to admit new members by
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members.
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the votes of two-thirds of those members who may be
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present at any annual meeting of said corporation.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
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be and it is hereby authorized at any annual, by a
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