836 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 750
CHAPTER 749.
(Senate Bill 636)

AN ACT authorizing any department or agency of the
State or any political sub-division to purchase federal
surplus materials or supplies without prior advertising
or competitive bidding.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
any department or agency of the State of Maryland, and
any political sub-division of the State may purchase, with-
out prior advertising or competitive bidding, any surplus
materials or supplies offered for sale by the United States
or any agency thereof.

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

Approved April 23, 1945.

CHAPTER 750.
(Senate Bill 638)

AN ACT to declare the sanction and consent of the
General Assembly of Maryland to sundry gifts, be-
quests 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, ves-
tries, educational and charitable institutions, churches,
denominations or sects hereinafter named.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, 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, devised,
grants, sales, leases, conveyances and deeds, to and from
certain persons and bodies corporate to and for the use
of certain ministerial persons, religious and educational cor-
porations, orders, denominations and sects, and to certain
charitable institutions hereinafter named and hereinafter
set forth.