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keeping of securities or other valuables belonging to their trust
estate, nor permit such entry or access in such cases to be
made otherwise than by all of such lessees in person, their
survivors or successors; nor, where such safe or box is rented
to a single trustee, executor, administrator or other fiduciary
for such purpose, permit such entry or access, otherwise than
by such trustee or other fiduciary in person or his successors;
provided, however, that where it is otherwise stipulated in
writing in the lease of such box or safe, signed by all of such
lessees, or where a written power of attorney or other written
authority is filed with such company, signed by all the lessees,
or by the one or more conferring such power on the other or
others, authorizing such entry and access by one or more of
their number, or by a deputy therein duly named and author-
ized, then in such cases entry may be permitted in accordance
with the provisions of such written lease or authority.

Savings Institutions.

1888, art. 23, sec. 218, 1868, ch. 471, sec. 152.

318. Any savings institution incorporated under this article
shall be capable of receiving from any person or persons, or
bodies corporate or politic, any deposit of money which shall
be invested or loaned out on good security, in the discretion
of the directors; provided, no part of the funds of said cor-
poration shall be loaned to any officer or director of such
corporation.

United German Bank v. Katz, 57 Md. 136.

Ibid. sec. 219. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 153.

319. It shall be the duty of the directors of such corpora-
tion to appoint, at least once in every twelve months, five
competent members of said corporation, as a committee of
examination, whose duty it shall be to investigate the affairs of
said corporation, and to make and publish a report of such
investigations in one or more newspapers published in the
county or city in which such institution is situated; and it
shall be the duty of the directors, at least once in every six
months in each and every year, to make and declare such divi-
dends of the interest and profits of said institution, as will not
impair the deposits thereof, or otherwise injure or affect the
interest or credit of said institution, and the same to pay over
unto the depositors, or their legal representatives, within ten
days thereafter, if called upon so to do.

United German Bank v. Katz, 57 Md. 136.