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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 13.

AN ACT to amend the Corporation of the Roman Catholic
Clergymen, a Corporation duly incorporated by the General
Assembly of Maryland, by the Act of seventeen hundred
and ninety-two, Chapter 55, and its supplements, the Act of
eighteen hundred and five, Chapter 118, and the Act of
eighteen hundred and eight, Chapter 37, and to amend and
enlarge the powers of said corporation, and to provide for
the government of said corporation, and to authorize said
corporation to take, receive and hold by purchase, gift, lease,
devise, bequest, legacy or in any other manner, any real or
personal property, and the same to alien, sell, transfer,
mortgage, grant or convey, and to explicitly authorize the
said corporation to alien, sell, transfer, grant or convey any
property, real or personal, acquired by it under the said Act
of seventeen and ninety -two, Chapter 55, said Act of
eighteen hundred and five, Chapter 118, and said Act of
eighteen hundred and eight, Chapter 37, or acquired by it in
any other manner since the passage of said Acts, and to ratify
and confirm any sale, gifts, transfers, mortgages and deeds
executed to it or by it, or the trustees thereof, since the
original incorporation thereof, and to remove any doubts
arising out of the language of said Acts.

Board of

directors.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the affairs of the said corporation of the Roman
Catholic Clergymen, shall be managed by a Board of Direc-
tors, who shall be elected annually on the first Thursday in
April in each year, and the said board shall be composed of
five members, who shall be citizens of the United States, and
in their election each member of said corporation shall be
entitled to one vote, and seven members of said corporation
shall constitute a quorum for the election of directors and the
transaction of any business, and that said board of directors
shall manage the affairs of the said corporation for one year,
and until their successors shall have been elected and qualified,

Vacancies.

and three members thereof shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of any business, and any vacancy in said board
shall be tilled by the remaining directors of the corporation.
The directors shall, at their first meeting after their election,