JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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models and mechanical apparatus, holding exhibi-

tions for articles of American manufacture, offering

and awarding premiums for excellence in those

branches of industry deemed worthy of encourage-

ment, examining and reporting upon such new in-

ventions as may be submitted for the purpose, and

by such other means for the promotion of the me-

chanic arts as experience may suggest.

SEC. 4. And le it enacted, That the affairs of said

corporation shall be managed and conducted by a

president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and

twenty-one managers, comprising a board of mana-

gers, to be elected as follows : At the first annual

meeting of the institute held after this act shall go

Officers--how

into effect, the members of the institute shall elect

elected.

by ballot, from their own number, a president, vice-

president, secretary, treasurer, and seven managers

to serve for one year, seven managers to serve for

two years, and seven managers to serve for three

years, said managers to determine, by drawing lots,

their respective terms ; and at every subsequent an-

nual meeting there shall be elected, in the same

manner, a president, vice-president, secretary and

treasurer, to serve for one year, and seven managers

to serve for three years ; provided, always, that two-

thirds of the board shall be practical mechanics or

manufacturers.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the duties and

rights of the members of said corporation, the pow-

ers and functions of its officers, the mode of supplying

vacancies in office, the time of meeting of the corpo-

ration and of the board of managers, the number to

constitute a quorum at any such meeting, the mode

of electing members, the terms of their admission,

Admission to

suspension or expulsion, shall be regulated by the

be regulated

constitution and by-laws of the institute now exist-

by by-laws.

ing or hereafter to be made, which the said corpora-

tion is hereby empowered to make and alter in the

manner therein mentioned; provided that said

constitution and by-laws shall not be repugnant to

the Constitution and laws of the United States, or of.

the State of Maryland.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That said institute shall

be authorized and empowered to graduate students