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aforesaid, and shall also be acknowledged in due form by the
president as such, in behalf of the corporation; but in the
absence or incapacity of the said president, the said commit-
tee of the corporation may appoint some one of its members to
execute and acknowledge the said deed or deeds on behalf of
the said corporation, and all acts or deeds of the said body
corporate so authenticated shall be valid and effectual in law.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall
be capable of purchasing hereafter real and personal property.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That all acts and deeds of the
committee of the Presbyterian Church heretofore incorporated
which are not inconsistent with the laws or constitution of this
State or the United States be and they hereby axe made good
and valid in law, and that all deeds or conveyances given 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 to the Committee hereinbefore
incorporated, and their successors forever, for the use and bene-
fit of the said Presbyterian Church, the same interest or estate
in any lands or tenements, or property of any kind, by said
deeds of conveyances given to the said Committee, or to any
person or persons in trust for said Church.

Approved April 11th, 1916.

CHAPTER 323.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 49
of Article 17 of Bagby's Annotated Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, entitled "Clerks of Courts, " subtitle
"Clerks of Circuit Courts. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 49 of Article 17 of Bagby's Annotated
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Clerks
of Courts, " subtitle "Clerks of Circuit Courts, " be, and the
same is, hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to
read as follows:

49. The said bond shall be recorded in the office of the
court of which he is clerk and shall be renewed every second
year during the first four days of the Fall term of said court,