952

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Company of Baltimore City, and the name of which was
changed to the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland,
and its powers enlarged by an Act of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1890, chapter 263, be and they are hereby author-
ized by a two-thirds vote of the stock of said corporation to
change the name of said corporation at a special meeting called
upon ten days' written notice to said stockholders specifying
the purpose of said meeting, and should the stockholders so
vote to change the name of said corporation at said meeting,
the president and secretary shall make and record a certificate
of the change of said name in the office of the clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore city, and thereafter the said cor-
poration shall be known by the name to which it may be so
changed, and by said last mentioned name shall have perpetual
succession, and may adopt a corporate seal and may sue and be
sued; provided, however, and it is hereby expressly declared
that the change of the name thereby made shall in no wise
affect the rights, privileges and powers of said corporation, and
shall in no wise impair or affect existing contracts, engage-
ments, debts and liabilities of said corporation with or to other
persons, or of other persons with or to said corporation.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1898.

CHAPTER 359.
AN ACT to amend the charter of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church, Zion, of Middletown, Frederick County, Maryland,
a corporation formed under the provisions of Article twenty-
three of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
title "Corporations," the certificate whereof is recorded in
Record of Incorporations No. two, folio one hundred and
ninety-five, etc., one of the record books of corporations in
the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Frederick
County.
WHEREAS, The Evangelical Lutheran Church, Zion, of Middle-

Preamble.

town, Frederick county, Maryland, a body corporate of the
State of Maryland, has, since its organization and its existence,
acquired several parcels of land, to be used as a cemetery, and
as the said corporation now desires to place the said lands
under a management separate from that of the other affairs of
the aforesaid corporation ; therefore,