1308 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

a careful examination are satisfied it is proper, they are hereby
authorized and empowered to pay to Mary E. Selvage, widow
of Charles N. Selvage, a former policeman of the police force
of Baltimore city, out of the funds in their possession, or sub-
ject to their control, a weekly pension of $5.00, payable on the
first day of each week.

And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect from the
date of its passage.

Approved April 6, 1908.

CHAPTER 521.

AN ACT to make valid the acts done by John W. Stonebraker,
John B. Sweeney, John S. Kausler, George B. Oswald, Ed-
ward W. Mealey, Samuel B. Loose, O. H. W. Ragan, Norman
K. Scott, Jr., Alexander Armstrong, Jr., and George W.
Smith, Jr., an association of persons under the name of "Rose
Hill Cemetery of Hagerstown," said acts having been done
since March 16, 1906; and to have devolved upon the Rose
Hill Cemetery of Hagerstown, incorporated February 15,
1908, all the property and assets, powers and rights, and all
debts and liabilities of a former incorporation of a similar
character, whose charter expired March 16, 1906.

Whereas the charter of the Rose Hill Cemetery of Hagers-
town, a corporation incorporated by the Circuit Court for
Washington county under the general incorporation laws of
Maryland on March 16, 1866, expired by limitation on March
16, 1906; and

Whereas by an oversight a successor to said corporation was
not incorporated to carry on the work of said expired corpora-
tion until the fifteenth day of February, 1908, at which time
a new corporation was incorporated by the Circuit Court for
Washington county, under the general incorporation laws of
Maryland, said new corporation having been formed to con-
tinue the work, take the property and assume all obligations
of the expired corporation; and

Whereas it is the desire of those interested to have all acts
done by said association of persons between the time of the
expiration of the old corporation and the formation of a new
corporation made valid; and also to have devolved upon said
new corporation all property and assets, powers and rights
and all debts and liabilities of the said expired corporation;
now, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That all Acts 'similar in character, tenor and effect to