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ing, taking, holding and conveying any estate, real or personal,
for the use of said corporation, and to establish by-laws and orders
for the regulation of said institution, and the preservation and
application of the funds thereof.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 78, sec. 2. 1830, ch 64, sec. 2.

352. Every person who hath subscribed the articles of said!
association, or who shall hereafter subscribe the same, and pay to
the funds of said institution the sum of fifty dollars, or ten dollars
annually for the term of six years, shall be a member for life;
and every person paying the sum of two dollars annually, shall be
a member while he continues to contribute the said sum, such
payment to be made at the time and in the manner prescribed by
the by-laws of the said association.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1853, ch. 404, sec. 1. 1856, ch. 288, sec. 1. 1878, ch. 343.

353. The number of managers of the house of refuge shall be
fifteen instead of twenty-four, as now prescribed by law, and of
whom five shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the
consent of the senate; five shall be elected by the members of the
association, and five shall be appointed by the mayor and city
council of Baltimore, in the manner and at the times prescribed
in the act of the general assembly of Maryland, passed at Decem-
ber session, eighteen hundred and thirty, chapter sixty-four, enti-
tled, "An act to establish a house of refuge for juvenile delin-
quents."

Ibid. sec. 4. 1830, ch. 64, sec. 8. 1856, ch. 288, sec. 1.

354. The members of the association shall assemble on the
third Monday of February, annually, at such place in the city of
Baltimore as the board of managers may from time to time
appoint, and of which the president, or in case of his absence or
refusal, the secretary or any member of the association, shall give
notice in at least two of the daily papers in the city of Baltimore,
and elect, by a plurality of ballots, ten managers.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1830, ch. 64, sec. 3.

355. Whenever any vacancy in said board of managers shall
occur by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, the same shall