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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the jurisdiction is granted by this act, together with

all buildings and personal property, which is or may

be hereafter within the bounds thereof, belonging to

Conditions.

the United States, shall be exempted, exonerated and

discharged from all state or county taxes, so long as

the said lots or parcels of ground shall remain the

property of the United States of America, for the pur-

pose aforesaid.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 27, 1884.

Chapter 135.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the congregation

of the Mission of Saint Vincent de Paul, in Ger-

mantown, a corporation created by an act of assem-

bly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to pur-

chase, acquire and hold real and personal estate

within the State of Maryland, and to sell and con-

vey such estate.

WHRREAS, by an act of the general assembly of the

commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a corporation was

created under the name of " The Congregation of the

Mission of Saint Vincent de Paul, in Germantown,"

with power to purchase and hold real and personal es-

tate, not exceeding in its clear yearly value the sum of

five thousand dollars, for the purpose of erecting a

Preamble.

church for said congregation, and also a dwelling house

and a house of education; and whereas the said cor-

poration is desirious of acquiring property in Fred-

erick county, in the State of Maryland, for a church,

a parsonage, a school house or school houses, a resi-

dence for the teachers of such school or schools, and

for a burial lot; therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the said corporation so created

Mission of
St. Vincent de

under an act of the general assembly of the common-

Paul.

wealth of Pennsylvania, and known as " The Congre-

gation of the Mission of Saint Vincent de Paul, in