ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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vote of a majority of the members present at that

meeting, to distribute any surplus of the preceding

year remaining after the settlement in full of all ex-

Distribute sur-

penses and claims upon the said corporation for that

plus.

year to the following objects, in the order named, and

in such proportion as to it may seem best, unless as

herein otherwise specified, viz.:

Firstly. The corporation shall always appropriate

not less than one-fourth of such surplus income as an

addition to the invested fund, which invested fund,

as now existing, and any additions thereto, shall be

reserved for the purpose of producing income to be used
for the purposes of the said corporation. Secondly.

Appropriate
surplus income

To the payment of the widows and children of de-

ceased members, as now authorized under the by-laws

of the corporation, to receive annuities of such sums

in addition to their annuities as their respective needs

and the amount to be distributed may warrant.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the day when an official certificate of its

How effective.

acceptance by the said corporation shall be filed with

the secretary of the State of Maryland.

Approved March 31, 1884.

Chapter 133.

AN ACT to repeal section two of chapter three hun-

dred and sixteen of the acts of eighteen hundred

and seventy-two, entitled "An act to add an addi-

tional section to article five of the Code of Public

General Laws," entitled " Appeals," and to re-enact

the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That section two of chapter three

hundred and sixteen of the acts of eighteen hundred

and seventy-two, entitled " An act to add an additional

Repealed and
re-enacted.

section to article five of the Code of Public General

Laws," entitled " Appeals," be and the same is here-

by repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

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