JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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	CHAPTER 79. AN ACT to amend the charter of the "North Point Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Baltimore County," a body corporate, by authorizing said corporation to acquire and own additional church property and property for parsonage purposes and burial grounds, and to acquire, hold and use property for certain charitable, moral and social objects and to effectuate the intention of grantors, donors and testators who may make conveyances, gifts, devises or bequests to said corporation. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of	CHAP. 79.
	Maryland, That the charter of "North Point Methodist Epis- copal Church, South, of Baltimore County," a corporation duly formed, organized and existing in accordance with law by the adoption, execution, acknowledgment and record of its certificate of incorporation under article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Corporations," sub-title "Religious Corporations," (said charter or certificate of incorporation having been recorded in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore county on the 18th day of February, 1902), be and the same is amended as hereinafter set forth ; provided, that the amendment hereby enacted shall take effect when the trustees of said corporation, or a majority of them, shall, by formal resolution, accept this Act, and when said resolution shall be recorded in the record book of the said corporation. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it is lawful for the said corporation, and it is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire, provide, erect, own, hold, maintain and administer, in addition to its present house of worship, such other church	Charter amended.
	buildings, chapels and chapels of ease, parsonage or parson- ages, burying ground or burying grounds as the trustees of said corporation may deem necessary or proper, with all proper appurtenances thereto, and equipment and furnishings thereof ; and said corporation and its trustees shall have and exercise in the premises all the powers set forth in their said certificate of incorporation, and especially all the powers con- ferred by section 206 of article 23 of the Code of Public	Additional powers granted.
	General Laws, 1888, title "Corporations," sub-tide "Religious Corporations;" provided, that each and every church and chapel owned or held by said corporation shall be used only for religious purposes, as set forth in article 1 of said certifi- cate of incorporation as recorded on the 18th day of February, 1902, as aforesaid ; and the trustees of said corporation shall rigidly reserve all the churches and chapels thereof to such	Proviso.