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any and all controversies concerning or growing out of contracts
of Bale, manufacturing or letting on rent; of the making or nego-
tiating or transfer of bills of exchange, promissory notes, bills of
lading, railroad, warehouse or other similar receipts, and other
such commercial paper; of guaranties of agency, of bailment, of
partnership, of insurance, of affreightment, or of any other trans-
actions, of whatever specific class, pertaining to trade, commerce,
navigation, manufactures or mechanic arts, or business connected
with any of these, or contracts for personal work, labor and ser-
vice done or rendered, or to be done or rendered, in and about
the pursuit and transactions of trade, commerce, navigation, man-
ufactures or mechanic arts, one or more of the parties to which
controversies is or are members of the said corporation, in all
cases wherein such controversy is by the consent of all the parties
thereto, signified by a submission in writing, referred for adjudi-
cation and settlement to said court.

1878, ch. 883.

66. In order to the due and effective execution of the power
in the next preceding section granted, the said corporation shall
have the further power, either directly in corporate meeting,
whether the regular annual meeting or a special meeting called
for the purpose by reasonable notice to all the members, .of the
time, place and object thereof, by advertisement in one or more
of the daily newspapers of the city of Baltimore, or else by dele-
gation, in such meeting, by rule or otherwise, made through the
officers and directors, constituting the board of directors or man-
agement of said corporation, in either case by the concurring
votes of a majority of the members of said corporation or board
of directors, as the case shall be, present at such meeting of the
one or the other for the purpose—provided there be then and
there a quorum present, as constituted by the constitution, arti-
cles of association or by-laws of the said corporation or board of di-
rectors—from time to time to elect from among those persons who
have been, or before any such election shall have been, admitted
to practise law in this State, one learned in the law and possess-
ing such other qualifications as the said corporation shall, by rule
or regulation, as hereinafter empowered, prescribe, whether such
person be a member of said corporation or not, unless otherwise