1108 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 543

powers on said corporation, to define and change the re-
spective powers of its Board of Managers and Board of
Trustees, and to amend its organic law.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the name of "The Union Protestant Infirmary of
the City of Baltimore," a corporation incorporated under and
by virtue of the provisions of tiie Act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at the January Session of L852, Chapter
231, be, and the same is, hereby changed to "The Union
Armorial Hospital,'' and the said corporation, under said
name changed as aforesaid, shall be entitled to all the property
and assets which belong to it under its former name, and all
its powers and rights, except a.s hereinafter changed or
amended, are hereby confirmed unto and fixed in said corpora-
tion under its new name, and every gift, grant, conveyance,
(rust, devise or bequest in favor of said corporation, under its
former name shall devolve upon it under its new name of "The
Union Memorial Hospital." The said corporation shall have
full power and authority to receive, acquire, hold and dis-
pose of, in any manner, property of any kind, in any amount,
to be used by it for its proper corporate purposes, and to sell,
lease, pledge, mortgage and otherwise dispose of. the same, or
any part thereof. The said corporation shall have all the
powers not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, which
are or may hereafter be vested in or conferred upon like cor-
porations by the General Laws of the State of Maryland, now
or hereafter in force, including the power to amend its charter
as hereby or hereafter amended.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That the said corporation
shall have power to maintain and operate one or more hospitals
or convalescent homes in the City of Baltimore, or elsewhere in
the State of Maryland, for the purpose of furnishing medical
and surgical aid and treatment, and ministering to the suffer-
ing sick of any and all races or creeds, and of any and all
conditions in life, furnishing said services at reasonable rates
or gratuitously, as the circumstances may require, and any
patient or inmate to have and to enjoy absolute and perfect
freedom of conscience in all religious matters, with the right to
avail himself or herself of such religious services or consola-
tions as he or she may desire.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said institution
shall be managed by the present Board of Managers, and their