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change. The board of directors may, at any time, fill any
vacancy in said committee for the remainder of the term in
which such vacancy may happen. The duty of the arbitration,
committee shall be to hear and decide any controversies which,
may arise in business between the members of said organization
or said members and other persons as may be voluntarily sub-
mitted to the said committee for arbitration; and such members
and persons may by an instrument in writing, signed by them and
attested by a subscribing witness, agree to submit to the decision
of said committee, any such controversy so arising as might be
the subject of an action at law or in equity, except claims of titl&
to real estate.

1870, ch. 186.

69. The mode of proceeding of said arbitration committee
shall be regulated by the by-laws of the corporation, which shall
be substantially complied with in all cases, without prejudice,
however, to any award from merely formal irregularity. The
said committee shall have power to apply to any justice of the
peace for the city of Baltimore to issue subpoenas and other com-
pulsory process to procure the attendance of witnesses before it;
and all justices so applied to in writing, signed by the chairman
or acting chairman of said committee, shall issue such process
forthwith, the cost of" the same, and of the attendance of the wit-
nesses so summoned, to be the same as in civil suits before such
justices, and to be collectible from the parties on whose behalf
the said witnesses shall be summoned and attend, in the same
manner and by the same means as if adjudged to be paid by a
judgment of the justice who shall act in the premises in a civil
suit between the same parties depending before him. A majority
of said committee may act in all cases, and a majority of such
majority shall have power to render an award in the name of and
as an act of the committee. No dissenting award or opinions
shall be rendered or placed among the proceedings, or upon the
records of the committee or the corporation; the award of the
committee rendered in conformity herewith, and as prescribed by
the by-laws, shall be conclusive on all parties to the submission:
It shall in all cases be in writing, signed by the members of the
committee who agreed upon it, and filed among the proceedings
of the committee, but copies shall be given by the secretary, with