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benefit applicable at the time the award was made.

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

Approved April 1, 1976.

CHAPTER 96
(House Bill 967)

AN ACT concerning

Protestant Episcopal Church—Diocese of Washington

FOR the purpose of transferring to the Session Laws the
laws of this State relating to the Protestant
Episcopal Church—Diocese of Washington, commonly
known as the "Vestry Act."

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, for the
purpose of transferring from the Code to the Session
Laws

Article 23 — Corporations

Sections 312A through 312Q, inclusive

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1973 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 312A through 312Q, inclusive, of
Article 23 - Corporations, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1973 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be
and they are hereby repealed and reenacted, without
amendments, for the purpose of transferring them from the
Annotated Code of Maryland to the Session Laws, to read
as follows:

Protestant Episcopal Church—Diocese of Washington

312A. Time, place and manner of electing vestrymen;
right of and qualifications for suffrage.

The vestries shall be chosen for each parish within
this diocese in the following manner:

Every member of the parish who shall have been
entered on the books of the parish as a member of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, at least one month preceding
the day of parish election, shall have the right of
suffrage for the election of vestrymen at the annual
meeting of such parish and for all other matters which