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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 609

CHAPTER 609

(Senate Bill 818)

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 General
Assembly be and the same is 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 set
forth.

1.    One—fourth of the principal held by
Mercantile—Safe Deposit and Trust Company as trustee for
the account of Helen Kilmer Venable, to be distributed to
the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in
Virginia, and three—fourths of that principal to be
distributed to the hospital authority of the city of
Petersburg, Virginia, the will being probated in the
Orphans' Court of Baltimore City on December 4, 1975.

2.    The principal held by Mercantile-Safe Deposit
and Trust Company as trustee for Sarah Bell Williams,
deceased, to be distributed to the rector, wardens and
vestry of St. Anne's Parish in Anne Arundel County,
Maryland, Incorporated.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 17, 1976.