ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

the company to call a special meeting of the
members of the company at any time to con-
sider any alteration of the constitution or by-
laws, or any new by-law, which shall be named
in the proceedings of the directors or in the
requisition of twenty or more members of the
company, it shall be the duty of the president

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to call such special meeting by giving twenty
days' public notice thereof in the same manner
required for calling the annual meetings, and
to state in such notice the alteration, amend-
ment or new by-law recommended by the direc-
tors or proposed by the twenty or more mem-
bers for the consideration of the meeting.
9. Whenever a loss shall occur which the said
company are liable to pay, it shall be the duty

Notice of pro-
posed change

of the directors at their first meeting after they
shall have been notified of said loss, to cause an
accurate statement to be made of the proportion
or sum to be contributed by each member to
make good the said loss to the person having
sustained the same. When all members of
the company who have not a sufficient balance
to their credit on any policy — after providing
for their part of the current expenses of the com-

Losses — how
determined.

pany — to pay their part of said loss, shall be
notified by the secretary of their proportion of
said loss, and the amount required to be paid in
by them ; and if, at the expiration of sixty days
from the date of such notice, any such member
of the company shall have failed to pay to the

Members to
be notified.

company his contribution aforesaid towards said
loss, it shall then be lawful for the company to
enforce the collection of the same in the manner
provided in the thirteenth and fourteenth sec-
tions of its charters.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the charter of

Enforce col-
lection.

the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Kent
county, granted by the act of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and forty-five, " chapter one
hundred and eighteen," as amended by this act,
shall be extended and be and continue in full
force until the first day of July in the year
nineteen hundred and forty.

Charter — how
far extended.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
go into effect from the time of its passage.
Approved March 8, 1888.

Effective.