JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the said body cor-
porate be and it is hereby authorized to accept and execute
trusts of any and every description which may be committed
or transferred, with its consent, to it by any person or persons
whomsoever, bodies corporate or public, or by any Court in
the State of Maryland or in any one of the United States, and
to accept the office and appointment of executor or adminis-
trator of any kind or nature, whenever such office or appoint-
ment is conferred or made by any person or persons, or by any
Orphans' Court or other Court, either of this State or of any
of the United States, and that in all cases where application
shall be made to any Court in the State of Maryland or else-
where for the appointment of any receiver, administrator,
executor, assignee, guardian or committee, it shall and may be
lawful for such Court, if it shall think proper, to appoint said
body corporate, with its assent, such receiver, trustee, admin-
istrator, executor, assignee, guardian or committee, and the
accounts of said company, as such receiver, trustee, ad minis-
trator executor, assignee, guardian or committee shall be
regularly settled and adjusted before the tribunal having
jurisdiction, and upon such settlement and adjustment all
proper, legal and customary charges, costs and expenses shall
be allowed, to said company for its care and management of
the trusts and estates aforesaid, and the said company, as such
receiver, trustee, administrator, executor, assignee, guardian or
committee, shall be subject to all orders or decrees of the
proper tribunal in the premises under the laws of the State
wherein such tribunal shall or may exercise its jurisdiction.

CHAP. 585,

Authority to
accept and
execute
trusts, etc.

SEC. 9. And le it further enacted, That the board of
directors or managers of said body corporate shall consist of
not fewer than five nor more than twenty-five members
thereof.

Board
of directors.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That said corporation shall be
subject at all times to the provisions of the Acts of 1892,
chapters 109 and 279, and Acts of 1896, chapter 160, or
amendments or supplements thereto, and to the provisions of
all other general laws applicable to similar corporations.
Approved April 11, 1902.

Subject to
certain
provisions.