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such purposes, shall be deemed to be a charitable, benevolent
and educational institution for the purposes of this section.

This sub-section shall not apply to college or high school
fraternities or sororities or other fraternal organizations
membership in which is restricted wholly or largely to
students or graduates of educational institutions or pro-
fessional schools.

Real estate or any estate therein, heretofore or hereafter
acquired and held for future use, and not for investment, by
any hospital or asylum not organized or conducted for profit,
provided that the exemption of property held for future use
granted by this sub-section shall be for the period January
1, 1947, to December 31, 1950.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any provision of
this Act is held invalid as to any person or set of circum-
stances, such invalidity shall not affect other persons of sets
of circumstances.

SEC. 3. And he it -further enacted. That all laws inconsistent
with this Act be and they are hereby repealed to the extent
of such inconsistency.

SEC. 4. And he it -further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1949.

Approved March 31, 1949.

CHAPTER 135

(House Bill 78)

AN ACT to provide for taking at the General Election to be
held in the year 1950 the sense of the voters of this
State in regard to calling a convention for altering the
Constitution or for framing a new one according to the
provisions of Article 14, Section 2, of the Constitution of
this State, as modified by Article 17, Section 9, of the
Constitution of this State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land., That at the general election to be held on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in November in the year 1950
there shall be submitted to the legal and qualified voters of
this State, for their decision, the question whether there shall
be called a convention for the purpose of altering the Consti-