PRIVATE ACTS. 1419

tions; and all their powers and rights are hereby confirmed
unto and vested in said consolidated corporation; and all their
debts and liabilities are and shall be devolved upon said con-
solidated corporation; and every gift, grant, conveyance, trus!:,
devise or bequest in favor of either of the former separate cor-
porations which it would have been capable of taking shall de-
volve upon said consolidated corporation. The said consoli-
dated corporation shall have full power and authority to re-
ceive, acquire, hold and dispose of in any manner property of
any kind in any amount, to be used by it for its proper corpo-
rate purposes; and to lease, pledge and mortgage the same or
any part thereof; and said consolidated corporation shall for
all purposes be regarded as substituted by operation of law
in the place and stead of said former separate corporations.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the board of managers of
the said "The Federated Charities of Baltimore" shall have the
power to make, alter and amend by by-laws for said corporation
and prescribe therein the qualifications for membership in said
corporation; and provide in said by-laws, among other things,
for the adoption and use of a corporate seal; the election or
appointment, powers, duties and tenure of the officers, com-
mittees and agents of the said corporation; the classification,
if any, and election of its managers, which may, from time to
time, be fixed at a number greater or less than that named in
said certificate of union or consolidation, and generally to pro-
vide in said by-laws for the government and management of the
said corporation and its officers. The said board of managers
shall be elected by the members of the said corporation, but in
the event of a vacancy on the board the same shall be filled by
said board.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That at any annual meeting of
the members of the said corporation, or at any adjournment
thereof, any business within the powers of the said corpora-
tion may be transacted without special notice of such business,
unless such notice be required by the by-laws, but at least ten
days' notice of the time and place of such meeting of members
shall be given by advertisement inserted at least once in a
newspaper published in Baltimore City, and no other notice
shall be necessary. Special or extraordinary meetings of the
members may be called by the president or a majority of
the board of managers, or of the executive committee, by giv-
ing ten days' notice of the time, place and object of said meet-
ings by advertisement inserted at least once in a newspaper pub-
lished in Baltimore City, and no other notice shall be necessary.
At any meeting, either of the said board of managers or of the
members of the said corporation, those actually present, if at
least eight in number in the case of a meeting of the board of