ART. 26. ] HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS.

declared to be a public agency of this State for the administration
of one of the charities thereof, and the hospital aforesaid, located
as aforesaid, is hereby declared to be one of the means adopted by
this State for the administration of one of its public chanties.

MARYLAND INEBRIATE ASYLUM.

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14. The Maryland Inebriate Asylum is by that name incor-
porated and constituted a body politic and corporate
15. For said purpose the said institution shall have power, in its
corporate name, to take, purchase, and hold real estate in the State
of Maryland, and erect thereon a building or buildings suitable for
the purposes of said asylum, and to take, purchase, hold, and convey
such real or personal property as may be necessary or proper to
carry out the object of said asylum; said corporation shall have
power to sue and be sued; to make and use a common seal, and to
alter the same at pleasure; and to take and hold any grant or devise
of land, or any donation or bequest of money or other personal
property, to be applied to the founding and maintenance of said

Art. 46, s 1
1860, c 386. s 1.
A corporation

Id s 2.
1860, c 386. s 2,
1868, c 417
Power to take
and hold
property

asylum.
16. The property which said corporation may hold and possess
shall not exceed in value the sum of five hundred thousand dollars.

Id s 8
1880, c 386, s 3
What value
property not to
exceed

17. All the affairs and concerns of said asylum shall be managed
by and conducted under a board of not more than fifty trustees,
who shall be citizens of the State of Maryland. The said board of

Id s 4
1860. c 386, s 4
Number of
trustees.

trustees, annually, from their own body, shall proceed to elect by
ballot a president, vice-president, and secretaries of said asylum,
who, so long as they shall continue trustees of said asylum, shall

Election of
president, etc.

hold their offices respectively during the pleasure of the board of
trustees; they shall also annually elect a treasurer, who shall hold
office during the pleasure of the board, and shall, in the discretion
of said board of trustees, give such bond for the faithful discharge

Treasurer

of his duties as they may deem proper; and said trustees may also
appoint from their own body, or otherwise, such other officers and
agents as may be necessary or proper for the purposes of the said
institution. The said board of trustees shall always have the power

Appointment of
other officers.

to fill vacancies in their own body caused by the death, resignation,
or removal from the State of Maryland, or otherwise, of any trustee
or trustees; and any trustee who shall be absent four consecutive
meetings of the board may, in the discretion of said board, be

Vacancies.

deemed and taken to have resigned. The said board shall also have
power to make all such by-laws, not inconsistent with the laws of
this State or of the United States, as they may deem proper for the
management of the affairs of said asylum. Five of the board of

Power to make
by-laws

trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
All committees, physicians, agents, and officers herein authorized,
or authorized by the by-laws of this asylum, shall be appointed by
the board of trustees.

Quorum