PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1491

Public General Laws of Maryland of 1904, as amended by Chap-
ter 219 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of
1910, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted to
read as follows:

SEC. 50. Every trust company incorporated under any law
or laws of this State, shall possess the powers and be subject to
the provisions, of this Act, and wherever the words ''Articles
of Association" occur in the provisions of this Act, they shall
be construed to include legislative charters and Articles of
incorporated; provided, however, nothing in this Act shall be
construed to repeal, modify or affect any special right, privi-
leges or powers conferred upon any trust company heretofore
created under any law of this State, by their respective char-
ters, if said companies were organized and doing business
prior to April 8th, 1910.

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

Approved April 16th, 1914.

CHAPTER 806.

AN ACT to declare the sanction and consent of the General As-
sembly of Maryland to sundry gifts, bequests and devises con-
tained in the last wills and testaments of certain persons, de-
ceased, and also to certain gifts, grants, sales, leases and deeds
made by various persons to and for the use and benefit of sun-
dry ministerial persons, religious corporations, educational
institutions, denominations or sects, and to certain charitable
institutions hereinafter named.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sanction and consent of said General Assembly
of Maryland be and the same is hereby declared, given and
granted to the following gifts, bequests, devises, grants, sales,
leases, conveyances and deeds, to and from certain persons and
bodies corporate to and for the use of certain ministerial per-
sons, religious and educational corporations, orders, denomina-
tions and sects, and to certain charitable institutions, as herein
set forth:

(1) To the devise and bequest of John B. Oldershaw, late
of Baltimore City, deceased, of the residue of his estate to the
"The Home for the Aged of the Methodist Episcopal Church