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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Passed May
18, 1853.
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CHAPTER 227.
AN ACT to incorporate the Fremont Savings
Institution.
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Incorporated.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Joseph Harvey, William G. Thomas,
Jesse Hay, William Wilkins, Thomas J. Townsend,
James W. Bowers, Joseph H. Curley, William M.
Woods, Peter Deible, Isaac Mules, Joshua H. Hynes,
Jr., E. Morrison, James C. Kinkle, Philip J. Thomas,
H. C. Forman, J. H. Hynes, Senr., S. Bowis, James
Mitchell, and all other persons who shall become members
of the Fremont Savings Institution, in the manner
hereinafter mentioned, shall be, and are hereby created
and made a body corporate, by the name and style of
the Fremont Savings Institution, and by that name
shall have succession, and be capable in law to hold
and dispose of property, to sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, answer and defend, and be answered
and defended, in any courts of law or equity, and in
any other place, to receive and make all deeds, transfers,
contracts, covenants, conveyances and grants whatsoever,
to make, have and use a common seal, and the
same to change and renew at pleasure, and generally
to do every other act or thing necessary to carry into
effect the provisions of this act.
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Meeting of
members.
Proviso.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That there shall be a
meeting of the members of said corporation, on such
day in the month of June next, and at such place as
the several persons above named, or any three
of them, shall appoint; of which meeting they shall give
at least ten days notice, by advertisement, in two of the
public daily newspapers printed in the city of Baltimore,
and on such days annually thereafter, and at such
place as the by-laws of said corporation shall provide,
for the purpose of choosing from among the members,
six directors to manage the affairs of said corporation
for one year thereafter, and until a new election of
directors shall take place; Provided, that such election
shall be made within one month from the expiration of
the term for which the preceding directors shall have
been elected; and the seven members first above named,
or any three of them, shall be the judges of the first
election of directors, and the judges of all subsequent
elections shall be appointed, and notice of such election
given, and the same conducted in such manner as the
by-laws shall provide.
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