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or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both in the
discretion of the Court.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from June 1, 1916.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 372.

AN ACT to incorporate The Maryland State College of Agri-
culture for the purpose of maintaining and operating an
institution of learning, the leading object of which shall be,
without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and
including military tactics, to teach such branches of instruc-
tion and learning as are related to agriculture, the mechanic
arts and household economics, in order to promote a liberal
and practical education, and to prescribe certain duties and
responsibilities in connection therewith; to confer upon
and grant to said corporation all endowments now granted
to the Maryland Agricultural College, and to grant to and
impose upon said corporation all powers, duties and obliga-
tions now devolving upon the said Maryland Agricultural
College, in connection with or by reason of any Public Gen-
eral Law of the State of Maryland; to grant to and impose
upon said corporation all powers, duties and obligations de-
volving upon the said Maryland Agricultural College in
connection with or by reason of the various and several Acts
of Congress of the United States of America relating to
agricultural colleges and agricultural experiment stations,
and to name and appoint said corporation to receive all
monies, appropriations and grants, now or hereafter coming
to the State of Maryland from the United States Govern-
ment under any Acts of Congress now in force or hereafter
to be passed for the purpose above named; and to vest in
said corporation all the property of the State of Maryland,
real, personal and mixed, now used or operated by or in the
possession of the Maryland Agricultural College and the
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station at College Park

and elsewhere.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That as soon as the Trustees are appointed, as set
forth in Section 2 of this Act, they and their successors in office