T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Edward W. Wyatt, Benj. M. Hodges, Jr., Edward
W. Blanchard, and George S. Norris, have hereto-
fore associated themselves, by virtue of the act of
the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and forty-six,
chapter three hundred and twenty-three, entitled
an act to authorise incorporations in certain cases,
for the purpose of constituting themselves a body
politic by the name of "the Boys' School of St.
Paul's Parish," having for its object the education
and moral improvement of poor and helpless boys ;
and whereas, doubts have arisen as to the proper
execution of the articles of association by which
they were incorporated, by reason of two of the
parties above-mentioned not having signed the
said articles, and also whether the said corporation
may receive and hold property beyond the amount
mentioned in the said act of assembly; and where-
as, the full success of the undertaking requires
(hat it should be authorised to receive and hold a
larger amount of property than is in said act of
assembly mentioned; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the articles of association
of the Boys' School of St. Paul's Parish, in the city
of Baltimore, notwithstanding any defect or defects
in the execution thereof, be hereby declared valid to
all intents and purposes, so as to constitute said body
a duly incorporated association under the laws of this
State, by its corporate name aforesaid, and that said
corporation be hereby declared capable of receiving,
recovering, holding, and enjoying all property, real,
persona], or mixed, which may have been heretofore
given, devised, or bequeathed to it, or which it may
hereafter acquire by gift, devise, bequest or other-

Declared du-
ly incorpora-
ted.

wise, Provided, that the amount of property so ac-
quired and held shall not exceed the sum of fifty
thousand dollars.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from and after its passage.

Proviso.