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meeting of the board of directors, a majority thereof
shall constitute a quorum.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That until the first elec- tion hereafter, by the stockholders, shall take place on the first Wednesday in May instead of the first Monday in December, as prescribed by the original charter, and the officers then elected shall have qual- ified, Benjamin T. Biggs shall be president, Patrick H. Irwin, treasurer, and Charles W. Leavitt, Edw'd Ingersoll, John B. Boyle, Charles B. Roberts, John Kearney, James E. Taylor, and Joseph Bringhurst, directors of the said company as reorganized. Approved March 28, 1876.

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CHAPTER 176.
AN ACT to provide for cleaning out the harbor and basin, and docks of the City of Baltimore, and for the permanent removal of the causes whereby the waters of the said harbor and basin have been polluted; and to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to issue bonds to the amount of one million of dollars to defray expenses of said work.
WHEREAS, it has been represented to the General Assembly that the sewage of the City of Baltimore has been for many years discharged into the waters of the harbor thereof, and that the said waters have thereby become so polluted as to endanger the health of the good people of said city as well as of others re- sorting thereto for business or pleasure.	Preamble.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of Bal- timore are hereby authorized and required, as soon as possible, to cause all that part of the harbor known 18	Authorized.