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812. If the estate of an intestate shall be paid to the Board
ot School Commissioners under this law, and any legal repre-
sentatives of the intestate of no remoter degrees among col-
laterals than brothers' or sisters' children, shall at any time
appear and prove him, her or themselves to be such legal rep-
resentatives, the Board of School Commissioners who received
such estate, or their successors, if the same shall be in their
hands or shall have been applied to the use of the public
schools, shall restore the same to such legal representatives
out of the school fund under their direction.

813. Nothing contained in this sub-division of this Article
shall be construed to interfere with or affect the rights vested
in the Charitable Marine Society of Baltimore.

Johns Hopkins University.

814. The Johns Hopkins University, a corporation duly

incorporated by certificate recorded in the office of the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, shall have power to
establish branches of the said university in the City of Balti-
more, to hold, or to purchase and hold, all property in said
City, needed for the successful conducting of the branches of
the said university in said City, and to keep and maintain a
principal office in said City for the conduct of the business of
the said university.

815. The said Johns Hopkins University shall have power
to admit students of the said university who shall merit the
distinction to the office and profession of surgeon, or to the
degree of doctor of medicine, or of doctor of laws, or of bachelor
or master of arts; to grant to students-in such university such
certificates of proficiency and attainments in any special study
as the said university may see proper to confer; and to grant
the honorary degrees of doctor of laws, doctor of medicine, and
master of arts, or such other degrees as may be proper, to any
person who may merit such distinction, whether such person
be a student of such university or not.