1196 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

sooner than one year from the date of the passage of this Act,
and shall thereafter provide for an annual election of said
members on the same day in each year thereafter, and for giv-
ing notices of such elections, and a failure to elect shall not
prevent a subsequent election.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That annually, after the expira-
tion of one year from the date of the passage of this Act, on
such day in each year as may be appointed under section 4 of
this Act, the adult members of the congregation of the Grove
Presbyterian Church, in Harford county, Maryland, who at-
tend said church and contribute to the maintenance thereof, to-
gether with the adults who own one or more lots in said ceme-
tery, and whose names appear on the books of the said corpora-
tion as owners of said lots, at the date of said election, shall
choose from the adult male members of the Grove Presbyterian
Church, in full communion with said church, seven men, who
shall, from and after their election, become members of the said
corporation and remain such for the space of one year and
until their successors are chosen, as herein provided; and as
many of said adult members of said church and said adult
owners of said lots, as shall attend at any meeting for the pur-
pose of said elections, shall be competent to choose the members
aforesaid.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That if at any time any of the
members of the said corporation shall die, resign or be incapaci-
tated from carrying on his duties as a member of the said cor-
poration, the remaining members of the said corporation shall
have the power of electing to membership in the said corpora-
tion any persons from among the adult male members of the
said Grove Presbyterian Church, in Harford county, Maryland,
in full communion with said church, so long as there shall be
such, to fill the vacancy in the membership of the said corpora-
tion created by the death, resignation or incapacity of the
former member of the corporation as aforesaid; said person so
elected to remain a member of the said corporation for the un-
expired term of the said former member; and if at any time
the Grove Presbyterian Church, in Harford county, Maryland,
shall cease to exist or there shall no longer be any adult male
members in full communion with the same, who shall consent
to serve as members of the said corporation, then the members
of the said corporation who shall be such at that time when the
said church ceases to exist or when there shall no longer be
any adult male members in full communion with the said
church who will consent to serve as members of the said corpo-
ration, shall proceed to fill all vacancies in the membership of
the said corporation by electing such male adults as they may