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controversy is by the consent of all the parties thereto, signi-
fied by a submission in writing, referred for adjudication and
settlement to said court.

224. In order to the due and effective execution of the
power in the next preceding section granted, the said corpora-
tion shall have the further power, either directly in corporate
meeting, whether the regular annual meeting or a special meet-
ing called for the purpose by reasonable notice to all the mem-
bers, of the time, place and object thereof, by advertisement in
one or more of the daily newspapers of the City of Baltimore, or
else by delegation, in such meeting, by rule or otherwise, made
through the officers and directors, constituting the Board of
Directors or management of said corporation, in either case
by the concurring votes of a majority of the members of said
corporation or Board of Directors, as the case shall be, present
at such meeting of the one or the other for the purpose—pro-
vided there be then and there a quorum present, as constituted
by the Constitution, Articles of Association or By-laws of the
said corporation or Board of Directors—from time to time to
elect from among those persons who have been, or before any
such election shall have been, admitted to practice law in this
State, one learned in the law and possessing such other qualifi-
cations as the said corporation shall, by rule or regulation, as
hereinafter empowered, prescribe, whether such person be a
member of said corporation or not, unless otherwise provided
by such rule or regulation, as Judge of the said Court of Arbitra-
tion, and also to elect in like manner, or to provide for the elec-
tion or appointment of a Clerk of the said court; and shall have
power also, by rules and regulations duly adopted by the said
corporation in such corporate meeting as aforesaid, or by the
delegation of said corporation in such meeting made by its
said Board of Directors, to define the duties powers and func-
tions of the said Judge and of the said Clerk, and of any other
members or officers of the said Court of Arbitration provided
for as hereinafter is authorized, and to determine the jurisdic-
tion of the said Judge, original and appellate, whether sitting
alone or with laymen, members of the said corporation associ-
ated with him, and to fix the term of time for which the said
Judge and the said Clerk, respectively, shall be elected, and