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twenty days thereafter, at the synagogue of said congregation,
or such other convenient place in the city of Baltimore, as the
electors aforesaid shall designate, and appoint, and then and
there elect nine persons, members of the said congregation, to
be electors thereof, until another election be held in pursuance
of this Act.

SEC. 4. That all property, real, personal and mixed, of said
congregation, and vested in any person or persons for their
use, shall be, and the same is hereby, vested for the use of said
congregation in the electors appointed by this Act and their
successors; and the said electors and their successors shall and
may, with the approbation and advice of two-thirds of the
whole number of members of the said congregation of the age
aforesaid, sell and dispose of every part thereof, and execute a
conveyance or conveyances transferring the legal and equitable
estate and interest of the said congregation therein.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That Section 4 of Chapter 118 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the
January Session, 1852, be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 4. That the members of said congregation over the age
of twenty-one years, or a majority of them, shall be able to or-
dain and establish such by-laws and ordinances as shall appear
necessary for regulating the spiritual and temporal concerns
of said congregation, and for governing the proceedings of said
electors, and for promoting the objects of this incorporation,
not being repugnant to this Act, nor to the laws of this State,
or of the United States; provided, that no alterations be made
in the present mode and form of worship, and in the rites and
ceremonies now used in the said congregation, except with the
assent of two-thirds of the members in attendance at a regular
called meeting of said congregation.

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

Approved April 5, 1910.

CHAPTER 158.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the United States Fidelity
and Guaranty Company, as said charter was enacted by
Chapter 52 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land of 1896 and as amended by Chapter 188 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland of 1898, and by Chapter
261 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1900,
and by Chapter 86 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1902, and by Chapter 298 of the Acts of the