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and that said company is hereby exempted from the payment of
any and all county taxation.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That if and when said com-
pany shall desire to acquire land or other property for or per-
taining to its uses and purposes, whether the same be the lands
and other property, including piers, abutments and other
bridge structures and appurtenances, or parts thereof, and
whether the owner or owners of the same be individuals, firms
or corporations, and can not for any of the causes mentioned
in section 251 of article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland of 1904, or if for any reason whatsoever said com-
pany can not acquire the same by agreement with the owner
or owners thereof when the same may be wanted, then and in
such case said company is hereby authorized to acquire and
hold the same by condepination proceedings in accordance with
the law as set forth in sections 251 and 252 of article 23 of the
aforesaid Code of Public General Laws of Maryland of 1904.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved February 25, 1908.

CHAPTER 28.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the People's Fire Insurance
Company of Frederick County, Maryland, a corporation duly
formed under the provisions of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, by providing for the number of directors
of said corporation to be increased.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That article 4 of the charter of the People's Fire Insur-
ance Company of Frederick County, Maryland, a corporation
duly formed under the provisions of the Code of Public General
Laws of this State, title "Corporations," sub-title "Insurance
Companies," which was duly incorporated, by certificate re-
corded under the provisions of the general incorporation laws
of the State of Maryland, in the record of corporations No. 3,
folio 13, in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for Fred-
erick county, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:

Article 4. The affairs of this corporation shall be managed by
board of directors consisting of not less than seven nor more
than fifteen directors, to be elected annually at such time and
place as may be provided for in the by-laws of said corporation.