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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

	CHAP. 387	CHAPTER 387. AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 2, 3, 6 and 7 of Chapter 215 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1900, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Maryland State Horticultural Society, and to appropriate a sum of money therefor."
	Repeal and re-enact.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- land, That Sections 2, 3, 6 and 7 of Chapter 215 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1900, entitled " An Act to incorporate the Maryland State Horticultural Society and to appropriate a sum of money therefor," be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows : Section 2. The affairs of the corporation shall be managed
	Managed by executive board.	by an executive board consisting of the president, first vice- president and secretary of the society, the president or first vice-president representing the State of Maryland, as the case may be, of the Peninsula Horticultural Society and three members of the Maryland State Horticultural Society elected by the society, who shall hold their offices until their successors are duly elected by the society in conformity with the respective constitutions of said societies, and the existing board shall remain in office until the next regular election of an executive board.
	Executive board have sole care and disposal of all funds.	Section 3. The said executive board shall have sole care and disposal of all funds appropriated by the Maryland Legisla- ture for the Maryland State Horticultural Society, and shall expend the same in such manner as will in their judgment best promote the development of the horticultural interests of Maryland. They shall render annually to the Governor of the State a detailed statement of all funds received from the State or elsewhere, and also of all expenditures made by them and the specific objects for which said sums were expended. They shall make no appropriation unless they have funds on hand to meet the same. The members of said board shall be jointly and severally liable for the payment of any debt created by the board in the absence of funds in the treasury to meet such obligations; nor in any event shall any debt be contracted except by a majority vote of said board, which majority shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.