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prima facie evidence of such membership; but permanent
members may be elected by the directors from time to time on
such terms as the directors may prescribe.

Industrial Home for Colored Girls.

1888, art. 27, sec. 374. 1882, ch. 291, sec 1.

533. The industrial home for colored girls is a body cor-
porate and politic and by that name and style shall have per-
petual succession with power to have and use a common seal
and to change the same at pleasure; to make contracts relative
to said institution; to sue and be used, and by that name and
style shall be capable of purchasing, taking, holding and con-
veying any real estate or personal property, or receiving the
same by gift, deed, will or bequest or otherwise for the use of
the corporation, and to establish by-laws, rules and regulations
for the government of said institution and the preservation and
application of the funds thereof, and may appoint such officers,
agents and servants as they may deem proper to transact the
business of the said corporation and designate and prescribe
their duties. The special object of the said industrial home
for colored girls shall be the care, reformation and instruction
of colored female minors who shall be admitted or committed
to the care and supervision thereof as hereinafter provided.

Ibid. sec. 375. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 2.

534. Every person who shall pay the sum of one hundred
dollars or more into the treasury of said institution at one time
shall be an honorary life director thereof, and every person who
shall contribute the sum of fifty dollars shall be a life member
thereof, and every person who contributes the sum of five
dollars or more annually shall be a member thereof while he or
she continues to contribute said sum, and all the said parties
so contributing shall be entitled to vote at the annual election
for managers and have the right to participate in all meetings
of the members of the said institution.

Ibid. sec. 376. 1862, ch. 291, sec 3.

535. The property and concerns of the said corporation
shall be managed by a board of managers consisting of eleven
persons, two of whom shall be appointed by the governor of
the State for the term of two years as other State appoint-
ments are made; two shall be appointed by the mayor of the
city of Baltimore annually as other municipal appointments