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successors forever; and the said corporation, with the consent
of two-thirds of all the members of said Church twenty-one
years of age and over, present at a meeting of said corporation
called for that purpose, are hereby declared to be capable of
bargaining, selling, mortgaging, leasing and conveying the
whole or any part of said property, real or personal, or any
other property, real or personal, which may hereafter be ac-
quired by the said corporation in as full, ample and effectual a
manner as any natural person or body corporate may or can do.

SEC. 6. That the members of the said Committee shall elect
from their number a President and Vice-President, whose duties
shall be those usually exercised by such officers; and in case of
the absence, removal or death of the President and Vice-Presi-
dent, the members of said Committee may appoint one of their
own number President pro tempore, who during such absence,
shall have all the privileges and authority of the President. The
said corporation may elect such other officers as may be neces-
sary for the proper conduct of the business thereof.

SEC. 10. That the said corporation shall be able and capable
hereafter to purchase, receive, hold and enjoy any estate, real,
personal, or mixed, to the value of not exceeding Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That all acts and deeds
of the Committee of the Baptist Church in the City of Balti-
more heretofore incorporated, and their successors, which are
not inconsistent with the laws or constitution of this State or of
the United States, be and they are hereby made good and valid
in law, and that all deeds or conveyances made to the said
Committee, or to any person or persons in trust for said Church,
for any interest or estate in any lands or tenements, or property
of any kind, be and they are hereby made valid and effectual in
law, to transfer the same interest or estate as hereby vested in
the Committee hereinbefore incorporated, and their successors
forever, for the use of said Church.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any Acts, amend-
ments or laws heretofore enacted inconsistent herewith, be and
the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2nd, 1914.