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LAWS OP MARYLAND.

Trustee, released unto the said Central Presby-
terian Church of the city of Baltimore, a por-
tion of the rent reserved upon the lot sub-
leased as aforesaid from the said Martha E.
Levering; and

WHEREAS the said Central Presbyterian
Church of the city of Baltimore, has regu-

Preamble.

larly paid the rents reserved in each of said
leases, and has improved the said lots by the
erection thereon of a church and chapel at the
cost of seventy thousand dollars; and

WHEREAS the said Central Presbyterian

Preamble.

Church of the city of Baltimore, is desir-
ous of acquiring the fee in the said two lots
of ground whenever it can effect arrangements
with the present owner of the fee, his heirs or
assigns, for the grant thereof; and

WHEREAS doubts have been suggested as to
the validity of the said two leases and of the

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said release, and of any grant, gift or devise
of the fee in the said lots to the Central Pres-
byterian Church, which may hereafter be made,
until the sanction of the General Assembly
shall have been given to said leases and to
the said release, and to the acquiring by the
said Central Presbyterian Church of the city
of Baltimore, of the fee in said lots at any
time hereafter; therefore,

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That its sanction is

Sanction to
leases.

hereby given and declared to the two above-
mentioned leases to the Central Presbyterian
Church of the city of Baltimore, and to the
above-mentioned release to the said Central
Presbyterian Church of the city of Baltimore.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the sanction
of the General Assembly of Maryland is hereby
given to the acquiring by the said Central

Acquiring fee.

Presbyterian Church of the city of Balti-
more, of the fee in said lots of ground, or in
either of them, at any time hereafter, by gift,
grant or devise.

Approved April 1, 1886.