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purpose of maintaining and operating an institution of learn-
ing, the leading object of which shall be, without excluding
other scientific and classical studies, and including military
tactics, to teach such branches of instruction and learning
as are related to agriculture, the mechanic arts and house-
hold economics, in order to promote a liberal and practical
education., and to prescribe certain duties and responsibilities
in connection therewith; to confer upon and grant to said cor-
poration all endowments now granted to the Maryland Agri-
cultural College, and to grant to and impose upon said cor-
poration all powers, duties and obligations now devolving upon
the said Maryland Agricultural College, in connection with or by
reason of any Public General Law of the State of Maryland; to
grant to and impose upon said corporation all powers, duties
and obligations devolving upon the said Maryland Agricultural
College in connection with or by reason of the various and
several Acts of Congress of the United States of America,
relating to agricultural colleges and agricultural experiment
stations, and to name and appoint said corporation to receive
all moneys, appropriations and grants, now or hereafter com-
ing to the State of Maryland from the United States Govern-
ment under any Acts of Congress now in force or hereafter
to be passed for the purposes above named; and to vest in
said corporation all the property of the State of Maryland,
real, personal and mixed, now used or operated by or in the
possession of the Maryland Agricultural College and the Mary-
land Agricultural Experiment Station at College Park and
elsewhere. " [Which was read the first time and referred to the,
Committee on Finance. ]

By Mr. Harrison: Senate Bill No. 244, entitled "An Act to
repeal Sections 1 and 2 of Article 2-A, as the same are num-
bered and set forth in the Annotated Code of Maryland, as
legalized by Chapter 21 of the Acts of 1912 and Chapter 16
of the Acts of 1914 of the General Assembly of Maryland, title
'Agriculture, ' and re-enact the same, with amendments, and
to add four new sections to said Article 2-A of said Anno-
tated Code of Maryland, to follow immediately after Section
6 of said Article 2-A and to be numbered respectively 7, 8, 9
and 10; providing for the State Board of Agriculture and the
manner in which the same shall be constituted, and prescrib-
ing certain powers and duties. " [Which was read the first
time and referred to the Committee on Finance. ]

By Mr. Kaufman: Senate Bill No. 245, entitled 'An Act to
repeal Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, T, 15, 15-A, 15-E, 15-G, 15-H, 15-1,