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BY-LAWS

OP THE

MARYLAND HOSPITAL.

I. BOARD.

By the Act of Incorporation, seven members constitute a
quorum. The Board shall meet on Wednesday next succeed-
ing the first Monday in June, as required by the Code of
Public General Laws, Article 44, Section 3, and on the second
Thursdav in January, of every year, and also when called
together in pursuance of any by-laws. At the meeting in
June, the following officers shall be elected by ballot, to wit.
a President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, and a mem-
ber of the Executive Committee. At the meeting in January,
the Board will receive the Annual Reports of the President,
the Medical Superintendent, the Treasurer, and the Executive
Committee, all of which reports are required to be prepared
by said officers respectively, and to be presented by them to
the Board at said meeting. At these meetings the Board will
also transact all business which may properly be brought be-
fore them. The Board shall make an Annual Report to the
Legislature as required by the second section of Resolution
1838, No. 66.

The Board shall from time to time make by-laws, rules and
regulations, or alter the same as required by the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws. Article 44, Section 7.

No alteration shall be made in any of the By-Laws of the
Board, except the proposed alteration or amendment be sub-
mitted at one meeting and adopted at a subsequent meeting.

II. MEMBERSHIP.

If any member of the Board from the City of Baltimore,
shall absent himself from the meetings of the Board for two
years, it shall be. competent for the Board to consider the
place of such member as vacant, and to proceed to fill such
vacancy.

When there may be a vacancy in the Board, nominations
for a new member shall be made at one meeting of the Board,
and the election shall be made at the next or any subsequent
meeting from the gentlemen so nominated.
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