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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 291.

AN ACT to authorize the Johns Hopkins Hospital,

a corporation incorporated by certificate duly re-

corded in the Office of the Clerk of the Superior

Court of Baltimore City, to purchase and hold

such tract, or tracts of land in this State as it may

require for the building of a house or houses for

the reception, and care of convalescent patients

from the said Hospital, and to purchase and hold

such tract or tracts of land, as it may require for

the building of a house or houses for the reception,

education and care of orphan colored children, and

to erect all necessary buildings for the said pur-

poses, and to govern the said establishments.

Authorized to

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

purchase.

Maryland, That the Johns Hopkins Hospital, a cor-

poration incorporated by certificate duly recorded in

the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Bal-

timore city, be and is in accordance with the wishes

of the late Johns Hopkins of Baltimore county, de-

ceased, duly expressed in his last will and testament,

and in his letter to the Trustees of said Hospital,

hereby authorized to purchase and hold such tract

or tracts of land in this State, as it may require for

the building of a house or houses for the reception

and care of convalescent patients from the said hos-

pital, and to purchase and hold such tract or tracts

of land, as it may require for the building of a

house or houses for the reception, education and

care of orphan colored children, not exceeding for

both of the said particular purposes, three hundred

acres of land, and to erect on the same all buildings

necessary for the said purposes, and to govern the

said respective establishments in such manner that

the true intent of the founder of said hospital, may

be carried into full effect.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved, April 11th, 1874.