JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the sanction and consent of the General
Assembly of Maryland be and the same is hereby declared,
given and granted to the following deeds and conveyances of
land to the vestry of Port Tobacco Parrish, that is to aay : A
deed from Robert F. Chapman of four acres of land near La
Plata, in said Charles county, to be used as a cemetery, said deed
being recorded among the larid records of said Charles county,
in Liber B. G. T. No. 2, folio 617 ; a deed from said Robert
F. Chapman and Ann L. Chapman, his wife, of two acres of
land in the town of La Plata, in said Charles county, for the
building of a rectory thereupon, said deed being recorded
among said land records in Liber I. S. T. No. 7, folio 622 ; and
a deed from Sidney E. Mudd and Mary Ida Mudd, his wife,
of one and thirty-five hundredths acres of land situated in
said town of La Plata, for the building of a church edifice,
said deed being recorded among said land records in Liber B.
G. T. No. 12, folio 436.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 252.

AN ACT to incorporate the Investment Company of
Maryland.

CHAP. 251.

Sanction
and consent
given.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That George R. Willis, Joseph C. France, Joseph
C. Mullen, Samuel K. Smith and Francis F. Homer, and their
successors and the holders of the stock hereinafter mentioned,
be and they are hereby created a body corporate by the name
of The Investment Company of Maryland, and by that name
shall have perpetual succession.

Body
corporate.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said body corporate
shall have the power to acquire, hold, vote, sell, pledge and
exercise all the rights of ownership over any bonds or other
securities or evidences of indebtedness of and any shares of
the capital stock created or issued by any corporation of this
State or of the United States or of any State or territory of
the United States or of any foreign country, and shall have
further power to aid in any manner any corporation whose
shares or securities it may hold and to do any and all acts
intended to promote, project, preserve and advance the value
and earning capacity of the securities held bv it.

Shall have
power to
acquire , hold
etc.,
rights of
ownership
over bonds,
etc.