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not to give sufficient notice to the opposite party of the evidence
to be offered in support of it; provided that in all jurisdictions
where provision has been or shall be made for the obtention
of speedy judgements, when the cause of action filed with the
declaration shall set forth the plaintiff's claim with the partic-
ularity required for a bill of particulars, the said cause of
action shall become and be taken and treated as one of the
pleadings in the case, and the plaintiff shall be restricted in
his evidence to proof of the items so set out.

SEC. 2. The foregoing proviso shall not apply to cases pending
or instituted prior to the passage of this Act.

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

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 379.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 17 of
Article 23, of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
title "Corporations," sub-title "Meetings."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 17 of Article 23 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of Maryland, be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

17. All meetings of the shareholders or members shall be
held in this State. A majority in interest of all the stock out-
standing and entitled to vote, or a majority in number of all
the members, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a
quorum; provided, however, that building associations, athletic
or social clubs, or mutual insurance companies, whose policy-
holders, for the time being, are members thereof, may provide,
by their constitutions or by-laws what shall constitute a quorum.
Except where it is by this article otherwise provided, the
vote of a majority of any quorum shall be sufficient to elect
and to pass any measure within the powers of a majority of the
holders of all the shares or of a majority of all the members.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10th, 1914.