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title "Corporations", sub-title "Meetings", said new section
to be known as Section 20 1/2, to follow immediately after
Section 20 of said Article, and to read as follows:

20 1/2. If a meeting of the members of a corporation
having no capital stock shall have been duly called and
warned in the manner provided in Section 18, for the pur-
pose of making any specified amendment of the charter or
by-laws or for any other lawful purpose, and at such meet-
ing a quorum shall not be in attendance, then the mem-
bers present at such meeting in person or by proxy may
by majority vote call a further meeting of the members
for the same purpose. Such further meeting shall be
warned in the manner provided in Section 18 and also by
giving fifteen days' notice of the time, place and object
thereof by advertisement inserted in a newspaper pub-
lished in the county or city in which the principal office
of the corporation is situated. At such further meeting,
called and warned as aforesaid, the members present in
person or by proxy shall constitute a quorum and by
majority vote may make such specified amendment of the
charter or by-laws and take any other action which might
have been taken at the original meeting if a quorum had
been present; and each notice of such further meeting shall
so state.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 29A
of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Corporations", sub-title "Amendment after
Organization", as said Section was enacted by Chapter
993 of the Acts of 1945, be and it is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect on June 1, 1947.

Approved March 29, 1947.

CHAPTER 16'0.
(Senate Bill 111)

AN ACT to repeal Section 509 of Article 21 of the Code of

Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title

"Talbot County", sub-title "State's Attorney", as said

section was amended by Chapter 77 of the Acts of 1933,

and to enact a new Section 509, authorizing the State's