| 1817.
CHAP. 168. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and Samuel Harden, Samuel Moore, Thomas Kelso, Martin
F. Maher, John Sullivan, David Burke and John Hanna, managers,
shall conduct the affairs of the society conformably to the
constitution and articles formed and agreed to by the members previously
to the passage of this act, and shall be entitled to hold
their said offices until an election shall be made by the members as
is herein directed. |
Meetings—Powers
of society. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the members of
the Hibernian
Society of Baltimore shall meet on the first Saturday in March
next after the passing of this act, at such place and hour as the
president of the said society shall appoint, and a majority of the
members assembled at such time and place of meeting shall have
power, and they are hereby authorised, to pass all such by-laws as
they may think necessary; to provide for fixing the time of the anniversary,
and other meetings of the society, and notify the same
to the members; to specify what officers shall be chosen annually
for the society, their powers and duties, and prescribe the time,
place and manner, of their election, and of filling any vacancies
that may occur; to provide for the admission and expulsion of
members; to provide for the collection of annual and other contributions;
to provide for the distribution and disposition of the funds
of the society to such charitable purposes as are designated in this
charter, and in payment of the necessary expenses of the society;
and in general to provide for conducting and managing the business
of the society, and for exercising all the powers, rights and
privileges, granted or authorised by this act for the benevolent
purposes herein before mentioned, in as full and ample a manner
as any other corporate body might or could do; and a majority of
the members which shall be present at each meeting of the said society
for the annual election of officers, shall have power to alter,
repeal, revise and amend, all or any of the by-laws which shall be
made as aforesaid, and to make others, which shall be subject to
like repeal and revision; provided, that such by-laws shall not
be inconsistent with this charter, nor in contradiction to any of the
laws of this state. |
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Passed Feb. 12, 1818.
* Ch. 16. |
CHAP. CLXIX.
A Supplement to an act*, entitled, An act to establish a Bank, and
incorporate a Company, under the title of The Planter's
Bank of
Prince-George's County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol.
103. |
Non-residents not
to subscribe for
stock on first day. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
no person not a resident of the county of Prince-George's shall be
at liberty to subscribe any part of the stock of said bank during
the first day on which the subscription books may be opened, but
in case the whole capital stock of said bank shall not be subscribed
on the said first day, then any person, not resident of Prince-George's
county, may subscribe for the same agreeably to the provisions
of this act. |
| Additional commissioners. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Robert W. Bowie
and Samuel
Sprigg, of Prince-George's county, be and they are hereby appointed
additional commissioners of the said bank, and that they
be vested with the same powers, and authorised and required to
perform the same duties, to all intents and purposes, as if they had
been named in the act to which this is a supplement. |
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