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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Anne Arundel
County.

WHEREAS, Alfred Ijams was appointed by the Governor of
Maryland a Judge of the Orphans' Court for Anne Arundel
County in the year 1896, and was duly commissioned as such
Judge and did qualify before the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Anne Arundel County on April 27, 1896, and did pay to
said clerk the sum of nine dollars and fifty cents ($9.50), as
tax on said commission, which said sum has been paid by
said clerk into the Treasury of Maryland; and

WHEREAS, By a decision of the Court of Appeals of Mary-
land, in mandamus proceedings, the said Alfred Ijams was
denied the right to assume and enjoy said office; therefore,

Refund a sum
of money to
Alfred Ijams.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Comptroller be and he is hereby authorized
and directed to draw his warrant on the Treasury of the State
for the sum of nine dollars and fifty cents ($9.50) in favor of
said Alfred Ijams, amount paid by him as tax on his com-
mission as Judge of the Orphans' Court for Anne Arundel
County to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county, and
by said clerk paid into the State Treasury.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 403.
AN ACT to incorporate the Imperial Provident Society.

Imperial Pro-
vident Society.
Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, That Robert De Barrill, Isaac
Lobe Straus, Kensett Brown, E. J. Dowell, Charles Shaffer,
John C. Wheatley, William J. Wroth and Henry W. Straus,
and whosoever may be now or hereafter associated with them,
their successors and assigns, are hereby created and consti-
tuted a body corporate under the name of the Imperial Provi-
dent Society, and they and their successors and assigns shall

Manner of
conducting
business.

have perpetual succession, and shall be capable to sue and
be sued, complain and defend in any court of law or equity,
and to make and use a common seal and alter the same at
pleasure; and shall be authorized to issue and grant insur-
ances and indemnity upon the lives of individuals of both
sexes, and against bodily infirmity or accident as hereinafter
set forth and according to the laws of this State, and also
to purchase, improve, lease, mortgage, hold and dispose of
property, either real, personal or mixed; to borrow or loan
money on mortgage; to make advance upon building's and
banks; to loan on collateral or private securities, and to do