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proportion of the capital stock so divided by the
directors, and each director who shall be present at
the making or declaring of such dividend, shall be
deemed to have consented thereto, unless he shall
immediately enter his dissent in writing on the
minutes of the proceedings of the board, and give
public notice to the stockholders that such dividend
has been declared.
H. The President and a majority of the directors
shall constitute a board for the transaction of the	Discounts.
business of the corporation, but the ordinary dis-
counts may be made or granted bj the President,
and three Directors, and in case of the sickness or
absence of the President of the Bank, his place may
be supplied by a member of the board whom the
President by writing under his hand shall select or
appoint as President pro tempore during such absence.
I. No director shall be entitled to receive any	Compensation.
emolument for his services, unless the same shall
have been allowed at a general meeting of the stock-
holders, and the directors shall make such compen-
sation to the President for his extraordinary attend-
ance at the bank as shall appear to them reasonable.
J. The President and Directors of the corporation	Call general
may at any time call a general meeting of the	meeting.
stockholders for any purpose relative to the institu-
tion, giving at least six weeks notice in two or more
daily newspapers published in Baltimore city ; and
any number of the stockholders owning not less than
one-fifth of the stock of the corporation, may at any
time apply to the said President or Directors to call a
general meeting of the stockholders for any purpose relative to the institution, and if the President and
Directors shall refuse to call such meeting, the stock-
holders owning not less than the aforesaid number
of shares shall have power to call a general meeting
of stockholders, giving notice as aforesaid, and
specifying in such notice the object of such meeting ;
and it is hereby made the duty of the President and
Directors of this Bank, upon the application of any
stockholders, proprietors of not less than one-fifth of
the capital stock, to give such stockholders a full list
of the names of all the stockholders in said bank.