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quired by the said corporation for the purposes of a burial
ground, but not then in use for such purposes, shall be unfit,
unsuitable or undersirable for such use, then the said corpora-
tion, upon the adoption and recording in their minutes of a
resolution to the above effect by its said board of trustees, shall
be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to sell and con-
vey to any person or persons, individual or body corporate, the
said portion of the lands aforesaid so found by its trustees to
be so undesirable, unsuitable or unfit for use for the purposes
above mentioned; and the vendee thereof or the grantee in any
conveyance of the same by the said corporation shall hold the
same with a clear title thereto, as though the lands aforesaid
had been originally lawfully acquired by the said corporation
without any restriction, limitation or condition as to the pur-
pose of such acquisition or the use of such lands.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its approval.

Approved April 11, 1910.

CHAPTER 164.
AN ACT to incorporate the Standard Life Insurance Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Alexander S. Stern, E. S. Katten, Saml. E. Reinhard
and the subscribers to the stock of the corporation hereby
created, and their successors and assigns, be and they are here-
by created a body corporate by the name of the Standard Life
Insurance Company, and by that name shall have perpetual
succession, and shall be competent to sue and be sued in any
court of law or equity whatever, to have and use a common
seal and to alter the same at its pleasure, and to make and
adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of said
body corporate and its officers, agents and employees, and from
time to time to amend the same; provided, such constitution,
by-laws or amendments thereto shall not conflict with the Con-
stitution and laws of this State, or of the United States; to
elect or appoint directors and officers, and generally to do, exe-
cute and enforce all and singular such acts, contracts, matters
and things as may be necessary to carry out the objects and
purposes and to protect the interests of said body corporate,
and to exercise the power or powers by this Act conferred upon
it.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said
corporation shall consist of one thousand shares of the par
value of one hundred dollars each, with the privilege to in-
crease the same from time to time by a vote of the stockholders