EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 301

publication the codification of the Public General Laws of the
State:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Volume 4 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
edited by George P. Bagby, be, and the same is, hereby legal-
ized, and, in connection with Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of said Code
legalized and made evidence of the Law by the Acts of 1912,
Chapter 21, and 1914, Chapter 16, shall be deemed and taken
in all the Courts of the State, by all the justices of the peace
of the State, and by all Public officials of the State, to be evi-
dence of the Public General Laws of the State contained in
the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland of 1888 and the
Public General Laws enacted subsequent thereto; provided that
before Volume 4 of said Annotated Code is published the Pub-
lic General Laws enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland
at its session of 1918 be incorporated therein.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 145.

AN ACT to ratify and confirm all acts done by The Sisters of
the Third Order of Saint Francis in furtherance of the pur-
poses for which they were incorporated to the same effect as
if their charter had never expired; and to continue said
corporation perpetually; and to amend said charter by
changing the name of the corporation to The Sisters of the
Third Order of St. Francis, Philadelphia Foundation, of St.
Joseph's Hospital, Baltimore, Md.; and to change the name
of St. Joseph's Overman Hospital to St. Joseph's Hospital.

WHEREAS, The Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis
were duly incorporated in the month of November, in the year
1870, under the general incorporation laws of the State, for the
purpose of establishing and maintaining a hospital in the City
of Baltimore, as appears by its charter recorded on November
29, 1870, in Charter Record G. R. No. 16, folio 345, of Balti-
more City; and

WHEREAS, The duration of corporate existence under said
charter and laws was limited to a period of 40 years, which
said period expired in the month of November, 1910; and