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	all vacancies that may occur by death, resignation, or otherwise,
	as may be provided by the, by-laws of said corporation, shall be
	filled by the board of directors by ballot at their next meeting,
	after ten days' notice in writing to each director; and it shall be	Vacancies
	lawful for said board of directors to reduce the number of direc-
	tors of said corporation to thirteen, whenever in their judgment,
	it shall be for the interest and advantage of said corporation so to
	do; provided, that such reduction shall not be made except by the
	votes of a majority of the whole number of directors provided
	for in the first clause of this section.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from	Effective.
	the date of its passage.
	Approved February 11, 1890.

	CHAPTER 18.
	AN ACT to repeal section fifty-seven, of article sixteen, of the
	Code of Public General Laws of the State of Maryland, title
	"Chancery," sub-title "Infants," and to re-enact the same with
	amendments.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
	That section fifty-seven, of Article sixteen, of the Code of Pub-	Repeal.
	lic General Laws of the State of Maryland, title "Chancery,"
	sub-title " Infants," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
	enacted, so as to read as follows :
	57. When the real estate or leasehold property of an infant or
	in which an infant is interested has been, or may hereafter be,
	sold upon the application of his or her guardian or prochein ami,
	or by virtue of or under a decree of court, in a case to which such
	infant is a party, or by virtue of a power contained in a mortgage
	upon such real estate or leasehold property, the court decreeing
	or ratifying such sale may, upon the application of the person
	making such sale, or upon the petition of the guardian of such	May be
	infant, order and direct the money arising from such sale to which	paid
	such infant shall be entitled, to be paid to the guardian of such
	infant, upon the filing in said court of a certificate from the
	register of wills of the county or city in which letters of guar-
	dianship have been granted, that the guardian of such infant
	has filed in the orphans' court of the county or city, granting
	letters of guardianship a bond, which bond shall be in the judg-
	ment of the court making such decree, order, or direction, in an
	amount and with security sufficient to protect such infant in the
	premises.