PRIVATE ACTS. 1309

those which were done and performed by the Rose Hill Ceme-
tery of Hagerstown, a body corporate prior to March 16, 1906,
and which said acts were done and performed at any time from
and after March 16, 1906, and prior to February 15, 1908, by
John W. Stonebraker, John B. Sweeney, John S. Kausler,
George B. Oswald, Edward W. Mealey, Samuel B. Loose, O.
H. W. Ragan, Norman B. Scott, Jr., Alexander Armstrong, Jr.,
and George W. Smith, Jr., associated together during said
time between March 16, 1906, and February 15, 1908, and trans-
acting business under the name and style of the Rose Hill Ceme-
tery of Hagerstown, be and the same are hereby ratified, con-
firmed and approved, and given the same legal force and effect
as if said acts had been done and performed by the said per-
sons hereinbefore named as the duly' authorized officers or
agents of a corporation legally incorporated under the laws of
Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That when the certificate of incor-
poration of the Rose Hill Cemetery of Hagerstown, incorpora-
ted February 15, 1908, shall have been recorded, as provided by
law, all the property and assets belonging to said expired cor-
poration of whatsoever nature and description and all the
powers and rights and all the debts and liabilities of said ex-
pired corporation, shall, upon such recording as aforesaid, be
devolved upon said new corporation, and every devise or be-
quest in favor of said expired corporation, which said corpora-
tion was capable of taking, shall devolve upon said new cor-
poration, which shall be regarded as substituted by operation
of law in the room and stead of said expired corporation.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said corporation so in-
corporated on February 15, 1908, under the general incorpora-
tion laws of Maryland, be and it is hereby authorized and em-
powered to receive all shares of stock issued by the expired cor-
poration to the stockholders thereof, and cancel the same, and
in lieu thereof to issue to the person or persons owning and
surrendering the same certificates for as many shares of the
capital stock in the new corporation as the said person or per-
sons shall appear from the surrendered and cancelled certifi-
cates to have owned in the expired corporation; said sur-
rendered stock to be received as a full consideration for the
new stock so issued.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6, 1908.