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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

such taxpayer a certificate to that effect, which certificate
shall be received by the treasurer and collector of taxes for

Baltimore County as so much money on account of said tax.

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

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 529.

AN ACT to further supplement an act entitled " An act to

incorporate the Baltimore Equitable Society for insuring

houses from loss by fire," being chapter thirty -nine, of the

Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of seventeen

hundred and ninety-four.

WHEREAS, since the act of Assembly of Maryland of

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seventeen hundred and ninety-four, chapter thirty-nine,

incorporating the Baltimore Equitable Society for insuring

houses from loss by fire, the Legislature of Maryland has

from time to enacted supplements to said act of incorpora-

tion, among which supplements is chapter thirty -five of the

acts of Assembly of Maryland passed at the November ses-

sion of eighteen hundred and one, and whereas in the first

section of said last mentioned act of Assembly, regulations

are made for the holding of the general meeting of the mem-

bers of the said society, and power and authority is con-

ferred on said general meetings to alter, amend and add to

the then existing articles of the said society ; and

WHEREAS the members of said society in general meet-

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ings assembled from time to time, since the passage of said

act, have exercised the power and authority thus conferred,

and it is deemed desirable that the amendments and pro-

visions hereinafter enacted, should be, by this act, made,

therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Amended.

Maryland, That the first section of chapter thirty -five of the

acts of Assembly of Maryland passed at the November ses-

sion of eighteen hundred and one, be and the same is hereby

amended, so that from and after the passage of this act,

whenever a general meeting of the members of the said

Baltimore Equitable Society shall be called as provided for

in said section, the said meeting may organize at the hour

appointed for said meeting, instead of waiting one hour