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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and protect destitute and homeless boys, to furnish

them with food, raiment and lodging, to stimulate

them to honest efforts to earn a livelihood, to instruct

them after working hours in moral and religious

truths, and in the rudiments of education, to aid

and encourage them out of vagrancy and ignorance,

to rise up into a better life of virtue, industry and use-

fulness and generally to stand in the relation of pa-

rent to such homeless boys.

Life member

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every person who

has paid or shall hereafter pay the sum of ($50.00)

fifty dollars at one time, shall be a member of said

society for life; and every person who shall have

Life director

paid, or who shall hereafter pay the sum of ($100 00)

one hundred dollars or more at one time shall be a

life director thereof; and every person paying the

sum of ($5.00) five dollars annually, shall be a mem-

Member

ber while he continues to contribute said sum, and

be entitled to vote at the annual election.

SEC 3. And be it enacted, That the property and

Management

concerns of said corporation shall be managed by

twenty-one directors, who shall be elected annually,

by the members of said society, at such time and

place, and in such manner as the articles and by-laws

of said society may appoint; five of said directors

shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of busi-

ness.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That whenever any va-

cancy in said board of directors shall occur by

Vacancies

death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, the same

shall be tilled for the remainder of the year by such

person as the board of directors for the time being,

or a majority of them, shall appoint.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That said corporation

may from time to time, make such by-laws, ordinances

Powers

and regulations, relative to receiving inmates into

the home, their management, government, instruction
discipline, employment and disposition, not contrary

to law, as they may deem proper, and may appoint

such officers, agents and servants as they may deem.

necessary to transact the business of said corporation,

and may designate their duties.