1078                                        LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [Ch. 149

Approved April 8, 1975.

CHAPTER 150

(Senate Bill 649)

AN ACT concerning

The Omnibus Bequest Bill

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 Wills
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. One—half of the principal held by
[[Merchantile]] Merchantile—Safe Deposit and Trust
Company as trustee for the account of Jacob Amram, to be
distributed to the Jacob Epstein Foundation, which was
set up pursuant to the terms of Jacob Epstein's will,
dated December 23, 1942, with codicils dated November 29,
1944, and June 13, 1945, the will being probated in the
Orphans' Court for Baltimore City on January 16, 1946,
and recorded in Liber JHB 219, Folio 326.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved April 8, 1975.