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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

a. hospital at which shall be received persons requiring medical

and surgical advice, aid and treatment, and where medicine

may be provided and dispensed for their benefit, where they

may receive all necessary care and suitable medical and sur-

gical treatment.

SEC. 3. And be if enacted. That the affairs of said corporation

Governing

shall be conducted by a board of trustees, to consist of not

body of cor-
poration.

exceeding eleven persons, no one of whom shall directly or

indirectly receive any compensation for services, nor be inter-

ested in any contract relating- to said hospital or the supplies

thereof.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That the persons named in the

first section of this Act, or such of them as accept this ap-

Trustees.

pointment, and such other persons as they may in accordance

with the by-laws of the said corporation appoint, shall be the

trustees of the said corporation, and shall have power to make

by-laws, not inconsistent with the law, and to alter the same ;

to fill vacancies which may occur in their number by non-ac-

ceptance, death, resignation or otherwise; to appoint all ne-

cessary physicians, surgeons, assistants, stewards, nurses and

servants, and to fix their compensation and to discharge them

whenever they shall deem it expedient to do so ; to make all

needful rules and regulations for the government of their

proceedings and for the admission of persons to said hospital.

And if at any time all of said trustees shall have died, removed

from the county, resigned or have become incapacitated to dis-

charge the duties of trustees as required by this Act, and

Succession of

there shall remain no one in being to continue succession as

trustees.

herein provided for, the Judge or Judges of the Circuit Court

for Washington County are hereby authorized to select trus-

tees, who shall have all the powers herein conferred for the

control of the affairs of said association and for continuing the

succession of trustees in perpetuity ; the purpose being by this

means to maintain in perpetuity a complete governing body of

trustees for the said "The Washington County Hospital Asso-

ciation."

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That a majority of all the trus-

tees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business,

Appointment

and said board may appoint from their number a president, a

of officers.

vice-president, treasurer, secretary and such other officers as

such board may deem necessary, in the manner, at the time,

and for the term to be prescribed in the by-laws ; every trustee

of said corporation, before proceeding to act, shall qualify by

taking the test oath required by the Constitution and laws of