1184 GOVERNOR. [ART. 41

ation laws of this State, and to prepare and report to the
general assembly of Maryland at the session of 1904, the
draft of a general system of laws providing for the formation
of corporations of all lawful descriptions and accurately defining
their duties, powers and obligations, with appropriate details
regulating the general method of conducting their operations,
the remedies for abuse, misuse and nonuse of their corporate
powers and the methods for dissolving them and for the service
of legal process against them, and embodying all provisions
proper for a complete system of incorporation law.

Maryland Flag.

1904, ch. 48. sec. 1.

26. The flag heretofore and now in use and known as the
Maryland Flag is hereby legalized and adopted as the Flag of
the State of Maryland, which said flag is particularly described,
as to coloring and arrangement, as follows: Quartered—the
first and fourth quarters being paly of six pieces, or and sable,
a bend dexter connterchanged; the second and third, quarterly,
argent and gules, a cross bottony countersigned; that is to say,
the first and fourth quarters consist of six vertical bars alter-
nately gold and black with a diagonal band on which the colors
are reversed, the second and third consisting of a quartered
field of red and white, charged with a Greek Cross, its arms
terminating in trefoils, with the coloring transposed, red being
on the white ground and white on the led, and all being as
represented upon the escutcheon of the present Great Seal of
Maryland.

Ibid. sec. 2.

27. The Flag of Maryland shall be displayed from the State
House at Annapolis, Maryland, continuously during the session
of the General Assembly, and on such other public occasions
as the governor of the State shall order and direct, the flag
always to be so arranged upon the flag-staff as to have the
black stripe on the diagonal bands of the first quartering at
the top of the staff as represented in the illustration of the
Maryland Flag in "Chronicles of Colonial Maryland."