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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the charter or articles of incorporation of the French
Benevolent Society of Baltimore, incorporated under the pro-
visions of the twenty-sixth Article of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws passed by the General Assembly of Maryland at its
January Session, in the year 1860, be amended by adding there-
to a new section, to be known as Section 2, and providing for
the election of members of the corporation by the board of di-
rectors, the said section to read as follows:

SEC., 2. Members of the corporation shall be the present
members and all others who shall be elected such by the board
of directors of the corporation, or their successors, according
to the regulations that may be adopted by them from time to
time.

SEC. 3. All provisions in the present charter or articles of
incorporation of said corporation that are inconsistent here-
with are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. This Act to take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 11, 1910.

CHAPTER 280.

AN ACT to incorporate "The State Bank of Baltimore," lo-
cated in the city of Baltimore.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Whitridge W. Rider, Percy T. Blogg, George G.
Davis, Henry B. Reinhardt, Morgan J. Davis and the subscrib-
ers of the stock of the corporation hereby created and their suc-
cessors and assigns be and they are hereby created a body cor-
porate by the name of the State Bank of Baltimore, and by that
name shall have perpetual succession and shall be competent to
sue and be used in any court of law or equity whatever, to
adopt and use a corporate seal, to make and adopt by-laws for
the government of said corporation and its officers; provided,
that the same shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this
State or of the United States; to elect or appoint directors and
officers and generally to execute and enforce all and singular
such acts, contracts, matters and things as may be necessary to
carry out the object and protect the interests of said corpora-
tion.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said cor-
poration shall consist of five thousand shares of twenty dollars
each, and the said corporation is hereby authorized to begin
business when stock to the amount of twenty-five thousand dol-
lars is subscribed and paid in.