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37, or acquired by it in any other manner since the passage
of said Acts, and to ratify and confirm any sale, gifts, trans-
fers, mortgages and deeds executed to it or by it, or the
trustees thereof since the original incorporation thereof, and
to remove any doubts arising out of the language of said
Acts. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 1 of Chapter 13 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of the Session of 1894, entitled '' An Act
to amend the Corporation of the Roman Catholic Clergyman,
a Corporation duly incorporated by the General Assembly of
Maryland by the Act of seventeen hundred and ninety-two,
Chapter 55, and its supplements, the Act of eighteen hundred
and five, Chapter 118, and the Act of eighteen hundred and
eight, Chapter 37, and to amend and enlarge the powers of said
Corporation and to provide for the government of said Corpora-
tion, and to authorize said Corporation to take, receive and hold
by purchase, gift, lease, devise, bequest, legacy or in any other
manner, any real or personal property, and the same to alien,
sell, transfer, mortgage, grant or convey, and to explicitly
authorize the said Corporation to alien, sell, transfer, grant or
convey any property, real or personal, acquired by it under
the said Act of eighteen hundred and five, Chapter 118, and
said Act of eighteen hundred and eight, Chapter 37, or acquired
by it in any other manner since the passage of said Acts, and
to ratify and confirm any sale, gifts, transfers, mortgages and
deeds executed to it or by it, or the trustees thereof since the
original incorporation thereof, and to remove any doubts arising
out of the language of said Acts", be and the same is hereby
repealed so as to read as follows:

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the affairs of the said Corporation of the Roman
Catholic Clergyman shall be managed by a Board of Directors,
who shall be elected by the members of said Corporation, who
shall meet at least once every three years on the fourth Thurs-
day in April of any year to elect said Board of Directors, which
said Board of Directors shall meet at least once a year on the
fourth Thursday in April, and the said Board shall be com-
posed of five members, who shall be citizens of the United
States, and in their election each member of said Cor-
poration shall be entitled to one vote, and seven mem-
bers of said Corporation. shall constitute a quorum for