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of the General Assembly referred to in the Act of 1916, in order
to change the official name of the institution in the City of Frede-
rick now known as the Maryland State School for the Deaf, the
name of this institution henceforth to be the Maryland School for
the Deaf.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 1 of Chapter 247 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of 1867, as last amended by Chapter 76 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of 1916 and as previously amended and supplemented by
other acts of the General Assembly referred to in the Act of 1916, be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

1. William J. Ross, Lawrence I. Brengle, Thomas Sims, H. C.
Naill, James M. Coale, Grafton Duvall, A. Fuller Crane, Joseph B.
Brinkley, Enoch Pratt, Grayson Eichelberger, Philip F. Thomas,
Richard D. Carmichael, Isaac D. Jones, Albert C. Green, William
Galloway, J. P. R. Gilliss, Daniel Weisel, Oliver Miller, Jacob Reese,
Richard John Bowie, William J. Albert, George Vickers, John A. J.
Creswell, James T. Briscoe, Curtis Davis, Barnes Compton, George
F. Maddox, Oden Bowie, Charles F. Goldsborough and William H.
Watkins, be and they are hereby made and constituted a body politic
and corporate by and under the name of the Maryland [State]
School for the Deaf, and by that name shall have perpetual succes-
sion, may sue and be sued in any Court of this State, may have and
use a common seal, and may at their pleasure, altar and change the
same, and may purchase, hold and receive, sell, demise or dispose of
any property, real, personal or mixed, as they shall judge to be most
beneficial and advantageous to the good and charitable ends and pur-
poses of the institution, and may receive donations and legacies of
personal estate and money for the promotion of the objects of the
institution.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved March 11, 1957.

CHAPTER 149
(Senate Bill 273)

AN ACT to add new Sections 180A and 180B to the Harford County
Code (1942 Edition), being Article 13 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Harford County", sub-title "Clerk of
Court", to follow immediately after Section 180 thereof, providing
for a general index for grantors and grantees in land and chattel
records in Harford County and providing further for the return
of recorded instruments.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.