236 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 275

PROCEDURE IN CHILDREN'S CASES.

568.

m. Any parent, legal custodian or next friend of any child
found to be a delinquent, dependent, neglected or mentally
incompetent child by said Court, who may feel that said child
has been aggrieved by the decision or any order or decree of
said Court, may, within ten days after said decision or the
passage of said order or decree, appeal therefrom to the Circuit
Court for Washington County, upon posting bond for the
appearance of said child at the ensuing term of said Court,
in such penal sum as the Magistrate of said Court may deter-
mine, executed by the party requesting said appeal, with or
without surety, in the discretion of said Magistrate.

The pendency of any such appeal or application therefor
shall not suspend the order of the Magistrate regarding such
child, nor discharge such child from the custody of the person
or institution or agency to whose care such child shall have
been committed by said Magistrate, unless the Judges of the
Circuit Court for Washington County shall so order.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.

Approved March 16, 1945.

CHAPTER 275.

(House Bill 309)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 275
of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Corporations", sub-title "Religious Corpo-
tions", increasing the number of trustees which a religious
corporation may have.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 275 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Corporations", sub-title
"Religious Corporations", be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

275. In every church, religious society or congregation, of
whatever sect, order or denomination, or which shall at any
time hereafter be known and acknowledged in the State, and
protected in the free and full exercise of its religion by the
constitution and the laws thereof, there shall be sufficient
power and authority in all persons above twenty-one years of