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but passenger trains, scheduled to regularly stop on signal
or otherwise at local stations on either the main line or Green
Spring Valley Branch of said railroad within this State, and
the same penalties shall be incurred for any violation of this
Act as provided in Section 300 of Article 23 of the Code of
Public General Laws.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1910.

CHAPTER 756.

AN ACT to add a sub-section to Article 23 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland (Code of 1904), title "Cor-
porations," subtitle "Religious Corporations," the said sub-
section to come after Section 316 of said Article, and to be
designated 316A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a sub-section be and the same is hereby added to
Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland
(Code of 1904), title "Corporations," subtitle "Religious Cor-
porations," said sub-section to follow Section 316, to be desig-
nated 316A and to read as follows:

316A. If any church or congregation organized or incorpor-
ated as a religious corporation since the year eighteen hun-
dred under any law of this State hath failed or omitted within
the time prescribed by said law to file in the proper office for
record the agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation
adopted by the said church or congregation, and if the said
agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation hath heretofore,
though after the time prescribed by said law, been filed for
record in the proper office, then, in such case, the said agree-
ment, plan or certificate of incorporation having been so filed
for record shall be effective for creating and making the said
church or congregation a proper and lawful religious body
corporate, and the same is hereby made a religious body cor-
porate, at, from and after the date of the said agreement, plan
or certificate of incorporation, in all respects, and to all in-
tents and purposes, as if the said agreement, plan or certificate
of incorporation had been duly filed for record within the time
prescribed by such law, and the failure to file the agreement,
plan or certificate of incorporation shall in no wise affect the
validity or effect of the said church or congregation as a valid
and lawful religious body corporate, all the proceedings, acts
and transactions carried on, done and performed in the name