VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

entitled to all the rights and privileges of membership
of the said academy.

CHAP. 355.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That this act shall con-
tinue and be in force for fifty years from the passage
of this act and shall be subject to such modifications
or changes as may be provided by law: and in case the
charter aforesaid shall, by the proper authorities, be
declared forfeited for cause, then the whole possession
of the said academy, of every kind whatsoever, shall
be immediately under the guardianship of the public

Limit 50 years.

authorities of the city aforesaid; and the said autho-
rity shall have power, after the expiration of eighteen
months from the date of said forfeiture, to return all
donations of every kind, other than money, that may
have been made to the said academy, and then existing
with it, to the donors, their heirs or legal representa-

Case of forfeit-
ure.

tives respectively, and all the other possessions of the
said academy to sell as soon as practicable, and in a
manner they shall deem best, and the proceeds there-
of shall, after the payment of all the expenses incurred
by, and incident thereto, be appropriated to the espe-
cial benefit of indigent and needy artists, or the fami-
lies of such artists of the State of Maryland, in such
manner as shall be thought best by the authorities
aforesaid: provided, that a new charter for the said
academy be not granted to the said corporation pre-
vious to the expiration of the time aforesaid,

CHAPTER 555.

Appropriation
of effects.

An act to authorise the Register of the Land office of
the Western Shore, to issue a warrant of Resurvey
and patent for certain Lands, in Allegany County.

Passed Mar. 29,
1838.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to the General
Assembly of Maryland, by Benjamin Fowler, that he
has an equitable title to a certain portion of a tract of
land in Allegany county, in this State, called Western
Connection, in virtue of a sale thereof, made by the
late Roger Perry, under a decree of the court of chan-
cery, passed on the twenty-first day of July, in the

Preamble.