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LAWS OF MAEYLAND.

devise or any other mode, land and property, both real and per-
sonal, for the purpose of supporting such scholarships, professor-

ships, lectureships and chairs, and for the purpose of investing

the funds of said corporation and carrying on its educational

work and plans.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall have

the power to elect by ballot corporators or members of said cor-

poration and so to keep up the membership thereof to a number

not exceeding forty-five, all new members so elected to be ap-

Members.

proved by the Baltimore annual conference of the methodist epis-

copal church at the annual session of said conference next suc-

ceeding such election, and the election of any member who shall

not be so approved shall be void, and at the annual meeting of

said corporation to be held in November, eighteen hundred and

ninety, all members of said corporation including those then

elected shall be divided by lot into five classes of equal number,

and the term of membership of the first class shall terminate in

one year, of the second class in two years, of the third class in

three years, of the fourth class in four years, and of the fifth

class in five years from the date of such annual meeting, and the

term of membership of each member elected after the annual

Classes.

meeting in November, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall be five

years unless elected to fill a vacancy caused by the death, resig-

nation or removal of a member before the expiration of the term

for which elected, or caused by a failure to elect or the failure of

said conference to approve of an election, in which case such

newly elected member shall hold membership only for the balance

of the full term to fill which he may be elected, and all members.

shall be eligible for re-election at the expiration of their respective

terms.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the annual meeting of said

Quorum.

corporation shall be held in the month of November of each year,

and that eleven members shall constitute a quorum f or the trans-

action of business, but a less number may adjourn and fix the

time for another meeting.

Effective.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.