FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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carry out the purposes for which this incorporation is

granted and to sell and convey burial lots therein, subject

to the provisions of this charter, and to such control over

the same by tliis corporation as is herein reserved, and the

said corporation may have a common seal, ordain by-laws

for its own government not repugnant to the constitution

and laws of the United States or this State, and shall en-

joy all the franchises incident to corporations, but no bank-

ing powers, nor shall the corporation have power to, alien

the land aforesaid or any part thereof nor to charge or en -

cumber the same or any part thereof by judgments, mort-

gages or otherwise, except as hereinbefore mentioned for the

purpose of acquiring additional land as aforesaid, the said

body corporate is hereby invested with the same authority

to condemn land which is conferred on bodies corporate un-

der the general corporation law of the State of Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the business and

Business

management of the corporation shall be done and conducted

done by

by seven directors who shall be lot holders in said cemetery

directors.

and shall be elected at the annual meeting of the lot owners,

which shall be on the first Tuesday of May in each and

every year, and shall continue in office for one year, and

until others are duly elected, a majority of whom shall con-

stitute a quorum for the transaction of all kinds of business,

that the said directors shall be elected by ballot by a ma-

jority of the votes of the lot holders present in person or by

proxy and a majority of the votes given shall be necessary

to a choice, and such ballot shall be made from time to

time until the requisite number of directors shall be chosen;

each lot shall entitle the holder thereof to have one vote. If

Vacancy —

any vacancy or vacancies by death, resignation or other-

how to be
filled

wise, the remaining directors or director shall have power

to fill all such vacancies, to serve until others are duly

elected, and if at any time vacancies should exist in the

office of all the directors, or if elections for directors should

not be held as herein directed, the corporation shall not

thereby cease, but directors shall be elected to fill such

vacancies at such time and place as the lot holders or a

majority of them shall appoint, who shall have the same

powers as if they liad been elected at an annual meeting

and hold their office until others are duly elected. The

directors shall appoint one of their number president, who

shall have such powers and perform such duties as shall be

provided by the by-laws. That the said Samuel Thomp-

Directors

son, Henry Clayton, Joshua Clayton, J. Fletcher Price,

Charles S. Ellison, Joseph H. Brooks and James A. Lewis

shall be the directors until the first annual meeting after

this act shall go into operation and until others shall be

duly elected.