EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1327

the said Trustees, may not be needed for a meeting house for
religious worship by the Society of People, called Quakers, or
for a burial ground for said Society of People.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 642.

AN ACT empowering the County Commissioners of Allegany
County to sell the property or a part thereof on which the
County Home and Sylvan Retreat are situated, and to build
a County Home and Pest House on other property to be
acquired by purchase or condemnation, and appointing a
Commission to report to the Legislature of 1918 the amount
necessary to purchase and the advisability of purchasing the
County property aforesaid for use of a State Hospital for
the Insane.

WHEREAS, Allegany County is the only county in the State
of Maryland which still maintains a home for insane and fee-
ble minded persons and whereas it may become advisable for
said County to sell said property on which the County Home,
Sylvan Retreat and County Pest House are now situated and
to make some other provision for the patients maintained
therein; therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Allegany Coun-
ty are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey the
county property or part thereof situated along the Valley Road
just outside of the City of Cumberland, Allegany County,
Maryland, and on which is located the County Home, Sylvan
Retreat and the Pest House, upon such terms as shall be most
advantageous to Allegany County, but in no event shall the
entire property be sold for less than a reasonable and fair sum.
and the sale of same, if made, shall be subject to the approval
of the Judges of the Circuit Court for the Fourth Judicial Cir-
cuit of Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in the event of such sale
the said County Commissioners of Allegany County are au-
thorized to acquire by purchase or condemnation property situ-
ated elsewhere in Allegany County on which to erect a County
Home and a Pest House and to use the proceeds, or such part