WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That if at any time here-
after any of the persons hereinbefore named, or any
future member of the said association, shall cease to
be a member of said association such person or persons
shall thereafter have no interest or controul in the
proceedings of said corporation, under and in pursu-
ance of the provisions of this act.

CHAP. 135,

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the lot of ground

and premises situate lying and being at the north-west
corner of Park. and Centre streets, in the city of Bal-
timore, now owned by Eliza Matthews, one of the
members of the said association, with the buildings
and improvements now, or which may be hereafter
erected on the said lot of ground, shall be, whenever
the same is conveyed to the said corporation hereby
created, and the said lot of ground and improvements
are hereby exempted from all taxation by the State of
Maryland, or the City of Baltimore, so long as the
said lot of ground and improvements are held and used
for purposes of piety and charity, and for the instruc-
tion of young females, and no longer.

Lot exempt from

taxation.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the Genera] Assem-
bly hereby expressly reserves the power at all times
to repeal, alter, or amend, this charter; provided how-
ever, that when the said charter shall be so repealed,
all the property, real, personal and mixed, then be-

possession, or action, shall remain with, and belong to
the proper owners thereof, their assignees, or legal
representatives.

CHAPTER 156.

Rights reserved.

A supplement to the act entitled, an act to extend the
time for taking the bond of John D. Ward, Sherijff
of Calvert County, passed the present session of the
General Assembly.

Passed Mar. 7,

1839.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the time prescribed in the original act to which
this is a supplement, for the said John D. Ward, to
execute his bond as sheriff of Calvert county, be, and
the same is hereby extended to the twentieth instant.

Time extended.