ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE. GOVERNOR. 13

	CHAPTER 15.
	AN ACT to amend the act passed at the December session, eigh-
	teen hundred and forty-seven, of the General Assembly of Mary-
	land, chapter one hundred and eighty-eight, and entitled "An
	act to incorporate the Mutual Eire Insurance Company of
	Montgomery county."
	WHEREAS, by the second section of chapter one hundred and
	eighty-eight, of the acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
	passed at the December Session, eighteen hundred and forty-seven,
	it was enacted that persons should be constituted members of said
	company and become bound by its rules and regulations by ex-
	pressing their assent in writing at the foot of a copy of said act
	and of the constitution and by-laws of said company, contained	Preamble.
	in a book to be kept by its secretary; and whereas, the inconveni-
	ence of requiring persons desiring to insure to go to the office of
	the secretary, has become so great as to render it impossible to
	comply literally with said section; and it was many years since
	provided by a by-law that the applicant for insurance should sign
	an application, and thereby, constructively, the said charter, con- stitution and by-laws; and it is deemed best that said act should
	be amended so as to remove any doubt as to said mode of authen-
	ticating the said assent of the applicant,
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
	That the second section of chapter one hundred and eighty-eight,
	of the acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the
	December session, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled
	"An Act to incorporate the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of
	Montgomery county," be and the same is hereby amended, so that	To amend
	all persons who wish to become members of said company shall be
	required to express in writing their assent to the said Act of As-
	sembly, and the constitution and by-laws of said company, either
	in the book mentioned in the second section, or in any manner re-
	quired by any by-law or by-laws heretofore passed, or hereafter to
	be passed by said company.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any assent heretofore given and
	expressed to the said act of Assembly, constitution and by-laws
	by any applicant or applicants for insurance, in the mode prp-
	scribed by any by-law of the said company, shall be as effectual to	Valid.
	all intents and purposes as if the same had been expressed in the
	manner required by the original second section of said act.
	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from	Effective
	the date of its passage.
	Approved February 11, 1890.