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SEC. 32. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the health, morals, safety or welfare
and being passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses
of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the
date of its passage, provided, however, that Section 14 of this
Act shall be effective June 1, 1927, until which date Chapters
118 and 443 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land of 1922 shall remain in full force and effect.

Approved April 26, 1927.

CHAPTER 449.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter 95 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1829, relating

to the Female Orphans Society of Annapolis.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 1 of Chapter 95 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of 1829, be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read
as follows:

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland,, That Samuel Ridout, Dr. John Ridgely, Col. Henry
Maynadier, Dr. John Ridout, and Thomas L. Alexander, and
their successors in office, elected in the manner hereinafter pro-
vided, shall be and they are hereby incorporated and made a
body politic by the name of the Trustees of the Female Orphan
Society of the City of Annapolis, and by that name shall have
perpetual succession and be capable in law of receiving and
holding in trust, and of using and disposing of, as is hereinafter
provided for, all kinds of gifts, grants, conveyances, donations
and devises of estate, real, personal and mixed, property and
effects, not exceeding in amount fifty thousand dollars, and by
the said name may sue and be sued, and plead, answer and
defend; may have and use a common seal, and the same may
alter and renew at pleasure, and may exercise all the other
powers authorized by this Act, in such manner as they, or a
majority of them may deem proper; subject nevertheless, to