EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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annually to give notice of at least two weeks by advertisement

in some newspaper published in Baltimore, Harford, Carroll
and Frederick Counties and Baltimore City of the election

Prescribing
election of di-
rectors for

required to be held on the first Tuesday in February of each

fire insurance
company.

and every year, for thirteen directors of said company, who

shall be members thereof, but in case such election should from

any cause not be held on said day, the company shall not in

consequence thereof be dissolved, but such election may be

held at such subsequent times as may be selected by the board

of directors or a majority of them after giving the notice above

Validity of
proxy vote.

required, and at such election each member shall have one

vote, and may vote either in person or by proxy, and no proxy

shall be deemed valid unless it shall have been executed and

delivered within twelve months immediately preceding the

election to be held.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 11, 1904.

CHAPTER 47.

AN ACT to provide for the donation of a copy of each vol-

ume of the Archives of the State of Maryland, published

by the Maryland Historical Society, to the Washington

County Free Library.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the Maryland Historical Society, in part consid-

State "Ar-
chives" for

eration of and as a condition to the payment of any sum of

free library.

money appropriated by the General Assembly of Maryland

out of the Treasury of the State to the said Maryland His-

torical Society shall deliver to the Washington County Free

Library without said, the Washington County Free Library,

being required to pay therefor, one copy of each volume of the

Archives of Maryland heretofore published by said, the Mary-

land Historical Society.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 11, 1904.

CHAPTER 48.

AN ACT to formally adopt and legalize the Maryland flag.

WHEREAS, It is represented to the General Assembly that

the flag designed and used as the Flag of Maryland, under the