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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

meeting for such election held after the adoption of this
amendment the present members of the board of directors
shall be distributed by lot among the said five classes.

A acancies.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the board of
directors shall have the power, in the mode prescribed by the
said by-laws, to elect new members of said board, fill all vacan-
cies and to remove any director or directors before the expira-
tion of their term of office.

Resolution tc
be filed with
Secretary of
State,

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That a copy of the resolution
accepting the provisions of this act, attested by the corporate
fseal of said corporation, shall be lodged with the Secretary of
State within sixty days after the passage thereof, and a copy of
the same duly attested by the Secretary of State shall be
evidence of this act in all the courts of law and equity of the
due acceptance of this act.

Effective.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 27th, 1896.

CHAPTER 105.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of Charles
County to issue bonds bearing a rate of interest not exceed-
ing five per centum per annum, to raise money to pay off
the present bonded indebtedness of said county, accruing
under the Act of Assembly of eighteen hundred and eighty-
four, chapter four hundred and ninety-three, and to levy
and collect the necessary taxes for the payment of said bonds
and the interest thereon.

May issue
bonds.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Charles county be
and they are hereby authorized to issue bonds in sums not less
than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars each, to
be signed by the president of the said Board of County Com-
missioners and countersigned by the clerk of said board, not
to exceed in the aggregate eight thousand, dollars, and bearing
a rate of interest not exceeding five per centum per annum;
said bonds hereby authorized to be issued to bear interest, pay-
able semi-annually, on the first day of July and the first day