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the election of directors and the transaction of any busi-
ness, and that said Board of Directors shall manage the
affairs of the said Corporation for one year, and until their suc-
cessors shall have been elected and qualified, and three members
thereof shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any
business, and any vacancy in said Board shall be filled by the
remaining directors of the Corporation. The directors shall,
at their first meeting after their election, choose a president and
secretary either from their own body or from the other members
of said Corporation; and in the event of the death, resignation
or disqualification of the president or secretary, the directors
shall elect their successors in the same manner.

The Board of Directors are hereby authorized to admit to
membership in said Corporation any minister of the Roman
Catholic religion within the United States, and citizens thereof,
from time to time, as they may see fit.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 150.

AN ACT to add six additional sections to Article 42 of Bagby's
Code of Public General Laws of 1911, to provide for the ex-
tradition of persons of unsound mind, and to make uniform
the laws of the States which enact the same.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the following six additional sections be enacted to
follow Section 20 of Article 42 of Bagby's Code of Public
General Laws of 1911, to be known as Sections 21, 22, 23,
24, 25 and 26, and to read as follows:

UNIFORM ACT FOR THE EXTRADITION OF PERSONS OF
UNSOUND MIND.

SEC. 21. (Name of the Act. ) This Act may be cited as the
Uniform Act for the Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind.

SEC. 22. (Definition of Terms. ) The terms "flight" and
"fled" as used in this Act, shall be construed to mean, any vol-
untary or involuntary departure from the jurisdiction of the
court where the proceedings hereinafter mentioned may have
been instituted and are still pending, with the effect of avoiding,
impeding or delaying the action of the court in which such
proceedings may have been instituted or be pending, or any such
departure from the State where the person demanded then was,