284 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 131

"Public Statutes and Office Copies and Official Certificates, "
be and the same is hereby repealed and reenacted so as to read
as follows:

56. A certified copy under seal of the extract of any
deed, mortgage, release of mortgage, or lease of real estate,
transmitted by any of the clerks of the circuit courts or the
clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city to the commis-
sioner of the land office shall be evidence in any Court of rec-
ord of this State of the original deed, mortgage, release of mort-
gage, or lease of real estate.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from and after the first day of June, 1918.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 131.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 3 of
Chapter 318, of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
of 1898, by changing the time for the annual election of Direc-
tors of Union Trust Company of Maryland; formerly known
as Realty Trust Company of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 3 of Chapter 318 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1898, entitled '' An Act to incorporate
the Realty Trust Company of Maryland" (which name was
changed by Section 21 of Chapter 76 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland of 1900, to Union Trust Company
of Maryland) be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
so that the same shall read as follows:

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That after the year 1918, the di-
rectors shall be elected annually by the stockholders, on the
second Monday of January, and they shall elect from their
number at the first meeting of the Board after their election, and
after all subsequent elections, a president and one or more vice-
presidents, and shall also have power to elect a secretary and
treasurer, and to appoint and employ such other officers and
agents as the business of said corporation from time to time re-
quires; all elections shall be by ballot, each share of stock being
entitled to one vote, and at such elections and at all meetings
of stockholders every stockholder shall be entitled to one vote