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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the charter of "Board of Missions of the
Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, of Baltimore City," a body corporate duly
formed, organized and existing in accordance with law by the
execution, acknowledgment, certification and record of a
certificate of incorporation under Article 23 of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Corporations" (said charter or
certificate of incorporation having been recorded in the office
of the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City on the
seventh day of March, 1902), be and the same is amended as
hereinafter set forth.
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CHAP. 334.
Charter to be
amended.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said "Board of Missions
of the Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, South, of Baltimore City," shall have perpetual
succession by its said name of incorporation, and it is hereby
empowered to acquire by purchase or in any other manner,
and take, receive, hold, use, employ, manage, mortgage, dis-
pose of, or in any other manner not inconsistent with law,
deal with any money or property, real, personal or mixed, and
situate out of as well as within this State, proper to fulfill the
purposes named in its said certificate of incorporation, and no
conveyance, grant, gift, devise or bequest to said corpora-
tion shall be held vague, indefinite or void because it may
contain or declare a trust or give direction as to the purpose or
object for which it shall be used, or the manner in which it
shall be administered or used, or a condition upon which it
may be taken or held ; provided, the trust declared, the direc-
tion given or the condition provided shall be for, within or
consistent with the purposes or objects of said corporation as
set forth in its said certificate of incorporation, nor shall any
such conveyance, gift, devise or bequest be held to create a
perpetuity, but every such declaration of trust, direction or
condition shall be construed and constituted a valid designa-
tion and appointment of the particular purpose to which the
property or money so conveyed, given, devised or bequeathed
shall be applied, or the manner in which it shall be
administered or used or of the condition upon which it
may be taken or held, and such property or money shall
vest in said corporation, and shall be applied, used and
administered by the trustees thereof for the purpose, in
the manner or pursuant to and consistently with the condition
so designated and appointed by the grantor, donor or testator,
and no gift, grant, devise or bequest made to the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, or to the Baltimore Annual Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for or to be applied
to either of the objects declared in said certificate of incorpo-
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Perpetual
succession
given and
empowered
to acquire by
purchase, etc.
money,
property, etc.
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