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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 763

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 5, 1906.

CHAPTER 764.

AN ACT to empower the Boys' School of St. Paul's Parish
to receive and hold property whose income shall not
exceed the annual sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.)

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Boys' School of St. Paul's Parish, incorpo-

Authority to
take prop-
erty by gift,
etc.

rated under Chapter 95 of the Acts of 1856 of the General
Assembly of Maryland, be and the same is hereby authorized
to take property of all kinds by gift, legacy, devise or other-
wise, by any name designated for or intended for the said
corporation, and that no misnomer shall render the same
invalid, provided such design or intent appears. That said
corporation may take and hold property of all kinds in
manner aforesaid, whose income shall not exceed the annual
sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.)
SEC. 2. That the existence of said corporation is hereby

Perpetual
existence.

made perpetual; and this Act shall take effect from its pas-
sage, subject to the right of the State of Maryland to repeal,
alter or amend the same at pleasure.
Approved April 5, 1906.

CHAPTER 765.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
39 of Article 16 of the Code of Public General Laws,
title "Chancery."
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Repeal and
re-enact.

land, That Section 39 of Article 16 of the Code of General
Laws of Maryland, title " Chancery," be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows :
39. When a bill prays for a divorce a vinculo matrimoni,

Not to
interfere
with Juris-
diction of
court.

the fact that the parties have been divorced a mensa et thoro
shall not be taken to interfere with the jurisdiction of the
court over the subject, and a party who has obtained a
divorce a mensa et thoro on the ground of abandonment,
which at the time of obtaining said divorce was not of the