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each annual meeting of the stockholders the successors to the Directors
whose terms have expired shall be elected by the stockholders to serve a
like term, provided, however, that a majority of the Board of Directors
shall at all times be members of the Board of State Aid and Charities, or
its staff, so long as it shall function as the State agency for the admin-
istration of Emergency Relief, and thereafter the membership of the
Board of Directors shall be constituted as the by-laws shall then provide.

1935, ch. 416, sec. 9F.

9F. The corporation shall have a perpetual existence unless dissolved
by subsequent Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, in which event
its property shall be sold and disposed of, its debts paid and collected, its
affairs properly settled, and the balance of funds on hand shall be offered
to the State of Maryland as a gift or endowment for continuing to carry
on the rehabilitation purposes for which this corporation has been estab-
lished.

1935, ch. 416, sec. 2.

9G. If any clause, sentence, part or parts of this sub-title, or any sec-
tion thereof, shall be held to be invalid for any reason, such holding shall
not be construed as affecting the validity of the remaining parts of this
sub-title or of any section or part of a section thereof, it being the Legis-
lative intent that the remainder of this sub-title shall stand, notwithstand-
ing the invalidity of such clause, sentence, part or parts of this sub-title,
or of any section or part of a section, and it is hereby expressly declared
that if the provisions of this sub-title, authorizing the creation of the cor-
poration known as the ''Maryland Rehabilitation Corporation, " shall be
declared to be invalid by any Court of competent jurisdiction, all and
every action theretofore taken or done by said corporation under the
authority of this sub-title which shall have been approved and adopted by
the Board of State Aid and Charities as the act of said Board of State
Aid and Charities shall nevertheless be valid, and in such event the
Board of State Aid and Charities shall be authorized to exercise the
rights, powers and duties of the Maryland Rehabilitation Corporation
until June 1, 1935, when the said Maryland Rehabilitation Corporation
shall thereafter assume and discharge the rights, powers and duties con-
ferred by this sub-title. ¹.

Volunteer Firemen.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 17. 1912, sec. 15. 1916, ch. 510, sec. 1. 1935, ch. 260, sec. 17.

17. Whenever any volunteer firemen in good standing of an incorporated
volunteer fire company in the State of Maryland, shall be temporarily or
permanently disabled as a direct result from active participation in fight-
ing a fire or while going to or from a fire, the said fireman shall lay his

¹ Sec. 3, ch. 416 of acts of 1935 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent
of such inconsistency.