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personal check of the fiduciary without being liable to the prin-
cipal, unless the bank receives the deposit or pays the check with
actual knowledge that the fiduciary is committing a breach of
his obligation as fiduciary in making such deposit or in draw-
ing such check, or with knowledge of such facts that its action
in receiving the deposit or paying the check amounts to bad
faith.

SEC. 10. (Act not Retroactive. ) The provisions of this Act
shall not apply to transactions taking place prior to the time

when it takes effect.

SEC. 11. (Cases not Provided for in Act. ) In any case not
provided for in this Act the rules of law and equity, including
the law merchant and those rules of law and equity relating to
trusts, agency, negotiable instruments and banking, shall con-
tinue to apply.

SEC. 12. (Uniformity of Interpretation. ) This Act shall be
so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose
to make uniform the law of those states which, enact it.

SEC. 13. (Short Title. ) This Act may be cited as the Uniform

Fiduciaries Act.

SEC. 14, (Inconsistent Laws Repealed. ) All Acts or parts
of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed..

Approved April 11, 1929.

CHAPTER 573.

AN ACT to declare the sanction and consent of the General
Assembly of Maryland to sundry gifts, bequests and devises
contained in the last wills and testaments of certain persons,
deceased, and also to certain gifts, grants, sales, leases and
deeds made by various persons to and for the use and benefit
of sundry ministerial persons, religious corporations, vestries,
educational and charitable institutions, churches, denomina-
tions or sects hereinafter named.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sanction and consent of said General Assembly
of Maryland be and the same is hereby declared given and
granted to the following gifts, bequests, devises, grants, sales,