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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Empowered
to make by-
laws, &c.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That a majority of
the Trustees shall have power from time to time to
enact and make by-laws and rules and regulations
for the management and government of the said
asylum and the persons residing therein as officers,
servants or otherwise, the same not being incon-
sistent with the public laws of this State or the
United States, or with this act; they shall also
have power to remove any one of their own num-
ber who, in the opinion of a majority of said Trus-
tees, may be negligent of his duty, or otherwise
conduct himself improperly; to fill all vacancies
occasioned by such removals or otherwise to elect
annually a President and Secretary, who shall per-
form the duties usually incumbent on such officers
and according to such rules and by-laws as may
be prescribed by said Trustees, and to remove them
at pleasure; to appoint and employ all such offi-
cers and servants as they may deem necessary or
proper; to dismiss them at their pleasure; to fix
and to prescribe their duties and compensation,
and generally to exercise all .the powers conferred
on the said corporation by this act, for the purpose
indicated in the second section.

Number of
Trustees.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted. That the number of
the Trustees shall be not less than five nor more
than seven, and if, at any time, they shall be
reduced to four acting Trustees by death, resigna-
tion, removal out of this State, or from any other
cause, it shall be the duty of the remaining Trus-
tees to fill each vacancy within sixty days after its
occurrence, and if they do not fill such vacancy
within said period, it shall be the duty of the
President, under penalty of a fine of five hundred
dollars to the State, to notify the Governor of this
State of the fact of such vacancy, and thereupon it
shall be the duty of the Governor forthwith, by
writing under his hand, to appoint some person to
fill every such vacancy or vacancies as often as
they may occur, in manner aforesaid; and unless
the Trustees shall have filled such vacancy before
they or any of them shall have been notified of the
appointment made by the Governor in manner
aforesaid, the person so appointed shall be and be-
come one of the Trustees to all intents and pur-

Duty of Trus-
tees.

poses.
Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be the