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CHAP. 34. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
prejudice, assess the damages sustained by the person or persons
at whose request such inquisition shall be taken, by reason of opening
said road through his, her or their land, and the persons so
summoned and sworn shall thereupon proceed to value and assess
the damages accordingly, of which the said petitioners, or some one
of them, shall have five days previous notice at the least, and such
inquisition shall be final and conclusive between the parties. |
Road not to go
through buildings,
&c. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall not
lay out or open the said road through the buildings, gardens, yards,
orchards or meadows, or any person or persons, without his or their
consent. |
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Passed Dec. 31.
* 1794, ch. 39. |
CHAP. XXXV.
A Supplement to an act, * entitled, An act to incorporate the Baltimore
Equitable Society for insuring Houses from loss by fire.
Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 42. |
General meeting
of members may
be held. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
there shall be a general meeting of the members of this society on
the first Monday in April every year, or oftener, if the directors for
the time being shall think fit, or any twenty members insuring to
the value of ten thousand pounds or upwards shall require the same,
at which general meetings all the members of the society shall have
a right and liberty to be present; of which general meetings, and
of the matters therein intended to be moved, proposed or transacted,
notice shall be given by the directors, at least seven days before the
times of such meetings, in one of more of the public newspapers,
or otherwise, as they shall see fit; which general meetings shall be
capable of acting and managing the affairs of the society that shall
then come before them, and they shall begin at an hour at least after
the time appointed for meeting, and shall choose a chairman, and
after the choice of a chairman, shall continue for the space of one
hour at least; and if any chairman of the said general meetings shall
refuse or neglect to put or offer to the consideration and determination
of the said general meetings any question or matter which
shall be then and there proposed, seconded and insisted on, then
the general meeting shall, and they are hereby empowered, to choose
another chairman in the room of him so refusing or neglecting as
aforesaid; and all and every of the said general meetings may and
they are hereby declared to have full power and authority to consider,
treat of and determine, concerning all or any the matters and
things relating to the said society, and the support, preservation
and good order thereof, and to alter and amend the present articles,
and may any additional articles which may be deemed conducive
to the prosperity of the society, at all which meetings the determination
of a majority of the members present shall be conclusive and
binding on the whole society. |
| Article repealed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the twenty-second
article of the
original act of incorporation, and to which this is a supplement, be
and the same is hereby repealed. |
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