THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 573
CHAPTER 320.
AN ACT to repeal Sections Four and Thirteen, of
the Act of Assembly, passed at the January
Session, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, Chapter
ninety-seven, entitled "An Act to establish and
endow an Agricultural College in the State of
Maryland, and to enact the following Sections
in lieu thereof.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Sections Four and Thirteen,
of the Act of Assembly, passed at the January
Session, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, Chapter
ninety-seven, be and the same are hereby re-
pealed, and the following Sections enacted in lieu
thereof.
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Repealed.
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Sec. 4; And be it enacted. That the President
of the Senate shall be, ex-officio, a member of the
Board of Trustees of the Maryland Agricultural
College, in the place which the Lieutenant Gover-
nor formerly held in the said Board.
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Board of
Trustees.
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Sec. 13. And be it enacted, That a general
meeting of the stockholders of the Maryland Agri-
cultural College shall be held annually, on the
second Wednesday of April, in the City of Balti-
more, at such special hour and place as the Presi-
dent of the existing Board of Trustees may ap-
point, and one week's notice of such meeting shall
be published in two of the daily newspapers of
Baltimore, and that a meeting may be called at
any time and at any convenient place during the
interval between the said annual meetings, by the
President and Trustees, or a majority of them, or
by the stockholders owning at least one-fourth of
the whole amount of stock subscribed, upon giv-
ing thirty days' public notice of the time and place
of holding the same, by advertisement published
in one or more newspapers of general circulation
in the State ; and at all meetings of said stock-
holders one-fourth in value of said stockholders
being present in person or by written proxy, shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of all busi-
ness ; and that if less than such quorum shall be
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Meetings.
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