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CHAPTER 594.
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AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section
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eight and eleven of article twenty -three of the Code of
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Public General Laws, title "Corporations."
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Amend-
ment.
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Maryland, That sections eight and eleven of article twenty-
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three of the Code of Public General Laws, title " Corpora-
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tions," be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted
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to read as follows.
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SEC. 8. Whenever five or more stockholders of any pri-
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Canvass
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vate corporation created under the laws of this State, at
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of votes.
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least thirty days before an election for managers, directors
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or other officers of such corporation elected by the stock-
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holders thereof, shall give notice in writing of their inten-
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tion to canvass the votes, which may be given at the next
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election thereof, and shall deliver said notice, at the usual
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place of business of such corporation, to the president,
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cashier, secretary, treasurer, director or other principal
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manager of such company, it shall be the duty of the
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officers receiving such notice, immediately to communicate
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the same by mail to all the stockholders of said corporation
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living in the State and living in other States, so far as
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their places of residence appear on the books of such cor-
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poration.
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SEC. 11. If notice shall be given for a canvass of votes,
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as prescribed in section eight, then at the election with
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Oath.
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reference to which such notice shall be given, no person or
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body corporate shall vote by proxy on stock held in any
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private corporation unless the person, or in case of a body
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corporate the president, cashier, or some lawfully constituted
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officer thereof, shall make oath before some person author-
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ized by the laws of Maryland, or by the laws of the State
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where the same shall be administered, to administer an
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oath to the same effect as required by section nine of this
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article, a certificate of which oath shall be produced, before
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the person or persons holding said election before any vote
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by proxy shall be received.
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Approved April 7th, 1892.
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