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this State, certified to be a true copy, under its seal by the president, or
a vice-president, and the secretary, or an assistant secretary, or the treas-
urer, or an assistant treasurer, thereof, shall be received as prima facie
evidence of such by-laws in the courts of this State.

Meetings.

An. Code, sec. 14. 1904, sec. 6. 1888, sec. 6. 1868, ch 471, sec. 6. 1908, ch. 240, sec. 14.

17. Every corporation, which is subject to the provisions of this article,
shall hold annually a stated or regular meeting for the election of directors
and for the transaction of general business; the time and place of holding
such meetings, and the notice to be given thereof and of the business to be
transacted, thereat, may be regulated by the by-laws, and unless otherwsie
provided by the by-laws, each shareholder or member shall be given notice
of the place, day and hour of such meeting in the manner provided for in
section 19 ; and such annual meetings shall be general meetings—that is to
say, open for the transaction of any business within the powers of the cor-
poration without special notice of such business, unless such notice .is
required by this article or by the by-laws.

Amendments to the Constitution of a hospital held not to have been properly
adopted, inasmuch as no notice of the proposed amendment was given as required by
the Constitution; proxies not permitted to vote. Amendment not adopted by
majority of those present in person and by proxy; conflict between Constitution
and by-laws. Defects not cured by approval of minutes at subsequent meeting.
Stevens v. Emergency Hospital, 142 Md. 534.

As to a waiver of notice of meeting, see sec. 27.

1922, ch. 309, sec 14 1/2.

18. In any case in which neither the charter nor the by-laws of a cor-
poration having no capital stock, heretofore or hereafter incorporated,
provides for members thereof as such, and in any case in which any such
corporation has in fact no members other than the members of its governing
body or board by whatever name they may be called, the members for the
time being of its governing body or board shall, for the purposes of any
statutory provision or rule of law relating to members of corporations
having no capital stock, be taken to be the members of such corporation, as
well as members of such governing body or board, and may meet as mem-
bers of such corporation and exercise all of the rights and powers of
members thereof.

An. Code, sec. 15. 1908, ch. 240, sec. 15
19. At any time in the interval between regular meetings, extraor-
dinary meetings of the shareholders or members may be called by the presi-
dent, or by a majority of the board of directors, or by a majority of the
executive committee (if the by-laws provide for an executive committee,
and confer such power upon such executive committee), upon ten days'
written or printed notice, stating the place, day and hour of such meeting
and the business proposed to be transacted thereat; such notice shall be