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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

sist of twelve persons and no more, who shall be members of the

methodist protestant episcopal church in good and regular stand-

ing, six of whom shall he ordained ministers of the Maryland

annual conference of methodist protestant church, and six shall

be lay members of the methodist protestant church within the

bounds of the Maryland annual conference, and the term of mem-

bership shall continue for three years, such term to begin on. the

first day of May next succeeding the election of the members as

hereinafter provided, and the Maryland annual conference of the

methodist protestant church shall at each annual meeting of said

conference elect in such mode as to the said conference shall

seem proper, four new members, two of whom shall be ministers

Corpora
tors.

and two laymen of said methodist protestant church, to fill the

places of those members whose terms expire on the first day of

May following said meeting of said conference; provided, how-

ever, that the aforesaid members of said corporation named in.

this act shall continue in office as members of said corporation as

follows: the terms of the membership of John D. Keinzer,

Augustus W. Mather, James E. Caton and Jarret N. Gilbert

shall expire on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-

one; the terms of the memberships of John W. Charlton, Francis

T. Little, Joseph H. Elliott and Charles A. Benjamin shall ex-

pire on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-two ;

the terms of the membership of Joseph L. Mills, James W. Gray,

Roland Watts and Thomas A. Murray shall expire on the first

Terms of

day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; and be it fur-

office.

ther provided in case the place of any member of said corporation

shall be made vacant by death, resignation, disqualification or

otherwise, before the expiration of his term, it shall be the duty

of the remaining members of the said corporation at their first

meeting held, at which such vacancy shall become known, to

elect or appoint some person, a minister or lay member of the

methodist protestant church, a member of said corporation, who

shall however, hold office only for the unexpired term of the

member creating such vacancy; and provided further, if the

said Maryland annual conference of the methodist protestant

church shall fill at any annual meeting thereof to elect members

to fill the vacancies occurring on the first of May next following

said annual meeting, then the said corporation at its next meet-

ing after the adjournment of said conference, shall elect mem-

bers to fill such vacancies, and the members so elected shall hold

membership for a term of three years, the same as though they

had been elected by said conference; provided, however, that the

name of each member elected by the corporation as hereinbefore

provided, shall be submitted to the said conference at the next

annual meeting thereof after snch election, and the said confer-

ence shall have power to approve snch elections or to remote any

member or members so elected by the said corporation, and to