1616                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [Ch. 400

CHAPTER 400
(Senate Bill 973)
AN ACT concerning

Omnibus Bequest Act

FOR the purpose of declaring the sanction and consent of
the General Assembly of Maryland to sundry gifts,
bequests, and devises contained in the Last Sills
and Testaments of certain persons, deceased, and
also to certain gifts, grants, sales, leases and
deeds made by various persons to and for the use and
benefit of sundry ministerial persons, religious
corporations, vestries, educational and charitable
institutions, churches, denominations or sects
hereinafter named.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the sanction and consent of the said
General Assembly of Maryland be and the same is hereby
declared, given and granted to the following gifts,
bequests, devises, grants, sales, leases, conveyances and
deeds, to and from certain persons and bodies corporate
to and for the use of certain ministerial persons,
religious and educational corporations, orders,
denominations and sects, and to certain charitable
institutions hereinafter named and hereinafter set forth.

1. The will of Jay Ferdinand Towner, of Harford
County, who died on May 1, 1917, by his Last Will and
Testament, who left his estate to Mercantile Trust
Company of Baltimore (now Mercantile—Safe Deposit and
Trust Company) in trust with the provision that on the
death of his wife, Elizabeth M. Towner, which occurred on
July 25, 1973, the Trustee should pay from the principal
of the Trust these two $1,000 legacies:

"5. The sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars to
Spesutia Protestant Episcopal Church, St. George's
Parish, at Perryman, Maryland.

"6. The sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) to Spesutia
Protestant Episcopal Church, St. George's Parish,
Perryman, Maryland, for the use of the Church Yard
Committee."

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.

Approved April 30, 1974.