LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Now for the purpose of carrying out the suggestion con-
tained in the will of the feaid Enoch Pratt, that an amendment
to the charter of the said corporation should be obtained from
the General Assembly of Maryland at the present session,
authorizing the change of its title and adopting the name of
" The Trustees of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital"
as the future title of the said corporation, and of securing for
the people of Maryland the benefit of a large addition to the
present buildings and increased facilities for the care of addi-
tional inmates, which will accrue to the said corporation, as the
residuary legatee and devisee under said will of Enoch Pratt,
therefore,

Amendment
to charter.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the name of " The Trustees of the Sheppard
Asylum," incorporated by the General Assembly of Maryland,
by chapter 274 of the Acts passed at its January session of
1853, as amended by chapter 9 of the Acts passed at its Janu-
ary session of 1886, be and the same is hereby changed to
" The Trustees of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital,"
which is hereby fixed and established as the corporate name
of the said corporation ; which said corporation, by the said
name of " The Trustees of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt
Hospital," shall have and hold all the property, enjoy all the
rights, and exercise all the powers and functions which were
heretofore possessed by or conferred upon the said corporation
under and by its former name of " The Trustees of the Shep-
pard Asylum," and shall hold in like manner all property or
estate which it shall acquire by will or otherwise under the
said change of title hereby made.

Changing
name of
corporation.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved March 2, 1898.

CHAPTER 18.
AN ACT to add new sections to Article 20 of the Code of
Pnblic Local Laws, title "Somerset County," sub-title "Oys-
ters," to be designated 196 A, 196 B, 196 o, and to repeal
Section 46 of Article 72 of the Code of Public General
Laws, title "Oysters," as repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments in Chapter 380 of the Acts of 1894, in so far as the
provisions of said section are in conflict or inconsistent with
the aforesaid new sections.

Effective,