LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

record books of Cecil county, in Liber D. S. No. 1, folio 220,
&c., be and the same is hereby changed to The Jacob Tome
Institute, and by that name the said corporation shall have and
exercise all the powers and functions which were heretofore
conferred upon, or possessed by, said corporation under and by
its former name, and all conveyances made by or to said corpo-
ration, and all other acts of every nature and kind done by
said corporation, in the exercise of its corporate powers and
functions under its former name, shall have the same force
and effect as if done under its name, The Jacob Tome Insti-
tute, and all liabilities incurred and all obligations assumed by
the corporation under its former name shall be enforcible
against it under its new name.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation be and

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it is hereby authorized and empowered to take and receive by
gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, any property, real,
personal or mixed, situate in this State or elsewhere, and to use,
lease or otherwise dispose of the same, or any part thereof, in
any matter not inconsistent with law.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said corporation be and
it is hereby authorized and empowered, whenever any land,
buildings or interest therein situate in the town of Port De-
posit, or adjacent thereto, are necessary and proper for its uses

Authority
given.

and purposes, and it cannot agree upon a price therefore with
the owner or owners thereof, or if the owner thereof be an
infant, feme covert, trustee or non compos mentis, or for any
other cause be legally incapable of contracting, or be out of
the county in which eaid land or buildings may lie when the
same may be wanted, to proceed to condemn and acquire such
land, buildings or interest therein as may be necessary lor
school purposes, only in the manner provided for in sections two
hundred and forty-eight to two hundred and fifty-three inclu-
sive of Article twenty-three of the Code of Public General
Laws of this State, (1888,) or any supplements or additions
thereto, so far as the same may be applicable, and not incon-
sistent with the provisions of this Act and the Act of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland of 1892, chapter 657, relating to
giving of notice to the owners in condemnation cases, shall be
applicable to proceedings for condemnation of property by
eaid corporation ; provided, that said Jacob Tome Institute
shall have no right to condemn any land now in the possession
of said corporation the title to which is now in litigation in the
ejectment suit of the heirs of James Davis vs. said Jacob Tome
Institute, now pending in the Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Power given
to condemn
property.