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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

company, created by General Law or special Act, in general

meeting assembled, from time to time, to provide for calling

in and cancelling the whole or any part of the capital stock

and issuing other stock instead thereof at such par value as

they may decide on, to an amount not exceeding the true value

of such stock, in such manner as to provide such contingent

fund or surplus not represented by stock as they may decide

Contingent

to be necessary ; provided, that notice of every such meeting

fund.

of stockholders shall be given in the manner required by

Section 76 of Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws,

and the proceedings thereafter shall be similar to those pre-

scribed in Sections 77 and 78 of said Article.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1904.

CHAPTER 252.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections

104, 105, 105A and 105B of Article 10 of the Code of Pub-

lic Local Laws, title "Dorchester County," sub-title "County

Commissioners," and to add one additional section to follow

said Section 105, to be numbered 105C, relating to the num-

ber, term, election and compensation of the County Commis-

sioners of said county, and increasing the number of County

Commissioners to five.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

County

land, That Sections 104, 105, 105A and 105B of Article TO of

Commission-
ers of Dor-

the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Dorchester County," sub-

chester

title "County Commissioners," be and the same are hereby

County.

repealed and re-enacted with amendments, and that one addi-

tional section, to follow Section 105 and to be numbered IO5C,

be and the same is hereby added to said Article 10, to read as

follows :

104. At the general election to be held on the first Tuesday

Election of
County

after the first Monday in the month of November, 1905, there

Commission-

shall be elected three County Commissioners for Dorchester

ers.

County, two for the term of six years and one for the term of

four years ; and political parties in making the nominations for

the office of County Commissioners in said county shall desig-

nate the term for which they are nominated ; said three County

Commissioners elected at said election, together with the two