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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 59.

AN ACT to sanction and make valid a deed from

the Canton Company of Baltimore to the Oheb

Sholom Congregation of Baltimore city, of three

acres of land in Baltimore county, in addition to

five acres of land owned by said congregation, in

accordance with article thirty-eight of the Declara-

tion of Rights of the State of Maryland.

WHEREAS the Canton Company of Baltimore has

conveyed to the Oheb Sholom Congregation of Balti-

more city three acres of land in Baltimore county, in

addition to five acres of land also heretofore conveyed

to said congregation, which has been used as a burial

Preamble.

ground, and which five acres of land it is entitled to

hold and possess, under article thirty-eight of the

declaration of rights without the sanction of the

legislature, and the said congregation now desires to

have the sanction of the legislature to hold and pos-

sess three additional acres of land which it has pur-

chased; therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the deed of three additional

acres of land conveyed by the Canton Company of

Baltimore to the said Oheb Sholom Congregation of

Baltimore city, situated in Baltimore county, be and

the same is hereby sanctioned, confirmed and made

valid, it being hereby intended to relieve said Oheb

Sanctioned and
confirmed.

Sholom Congregation of Baltimore city from the

constitutional prohibition now existing under article

thirty-eight of the Declaration of Rights of the State

of Maryland, conferring upon the said Oheb Sholom

Congregation the right to hold and possess three acres

of land in Baltimore county in addition to the five

acres of land now owned by it, as if the said constitu-

tional prohibition did not exist.

Approved March 20, 1884.