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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

benefit of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of

the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Twenty-second. To the bequest of Daniel Matthias,

late of Carroll county, of the sum of two hundred dol-

lars, to the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of Jeru-
salem Church, in Buchanan valley, in said Carroll

county.

Twenty-third. To the bequest of W. W. Hoffman,

late of Washington county, of the sum of one thou-

Bequest.

sand dollars, to Jela Hoffman, in trust, to be invested,

and the income thereof to be paid over annually for

two years to the trustees of the Church of Christ, in

Hagerstown; and at the end of ten years to the said

church under certain contingencies provided for in the

will of said W. W. Hoffman.

Twenty-fourth. To the bequest of Anne M. Martin,

late of Washington county, of the sum of fifty dollars,

to the Mennonite Church, at Stouffer's, in said county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 283.

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of Prince

George's county to determine, by ballot, whether

spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters

shall be sold in said county, and to regulate the

terms and conditions on which the sale thereof may

be made, in case the majority of the voters of said

county shall determine said question in the affirma-

tive, and to regulate the sale thereof by druggists

and pharmacists.

WHEREAS much doubt exists in the mind of a large

portion of the voters of Prince George's county whether

the law known as the local option law of said county,

Preamble.

passed at the session of the legislature in eighteen

hundred and eighty, chapter eighty-two; and whereas

numerous petitions have been forwarded to this legis-