286 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

powers provided for corporations formed under the general in-
corporation laws of this State in so far as the same are or may
become applicable to such an educational corporation as is by
this Act created; and any ten or more of the above incor-
porators may meet and accept this charter and organize here-
under, provided each incorporator shall have been given at least
three days' notice of said meeting.

SEC. 2. And lie it further enacted, That no member of the
governing body or professor or lecturer, instructor, tutor or
student of said University shall ever be required to hold or
profess any particular religious belief or opinions as a test
of office or for admission to any of the privileges, honors or
degrees of said University.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the governing Board
of the said University shall be its Board of Regents, which
shall consist of His Excellency, the Governor of Maryland, ex-
officio ; the Honorable the Comptroller of the Treasury of Mary-
land, ex-officio; the State Superintendent of Education, ex-
officio ; six persons to be appointed by the Governor of the State
of Maryland, none of whom shall be connected with any of the
affiliated institutions of the University, one of said six persons
being from each of the six Congressional Districts of the State;
two of which six persons shall hold office for a term of two years
from the first Monday in May next succeeding their appoint-
ment and until their successors shall qualify; two of which
six persons shall hold office for a term of four years from the
first Monday in May next succeeding their appointment and
until their successors shall qualify; two of which six persons
shall hold office for a term of six years from the first Monday
in May next succeeding their appointment and until their suc-
cessors shall qualify; the Governor shall, at the time of mak-
ing said appointments, designate the term of years of each of
said six persons when first appointed under this charter; the
term of office of said six members after the expiration of the
term for which first appointed, shall be a term of six years,
and to take the places of the members of the said Board whose
terms of office shall so expire, the Governor shall, every two
years, after 1914, before the first Monday in May in such
years, appoint two persons as members of said Board of Re-
gents to serve for terms of six years from the first Monday in
May next succeeding their appointment and until their suc-
cessors shall qualify; said persons shall be of high character,
integrity and capacity; in case of a vacancy among said six