EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 471'
CHAPTER 232.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Baltimore Chamber of
Commerce by providing for classification and regulation of
its membership.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce, heretofore in-
corporated by the General Assembly of Maryland by Chapter
83 of the Acts passed at the January session of 1865, as
amended by Chapter 136 of the Acts passed at the January
session of 1870, and as further amended by Chapter 335 of the
Acts passed at the January session of 1884, and as further
amended by Chapter 90 of the Acts passed at the January
session of 1896, in addition to the powers possessed by it under
the general laws of this State and under the said Acts of
Assembly, shall have the further powers hereinafter given.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the members of said
corporation shall be divided into two classes to be known and
designated respectively as resident members and non-resident
members.

Said corporation shall have the power to prescribe and estab-
lish by such by-laws as it may see fit to adopt, qualifications
for the classification of its members, as aforesaid, and to define,
regulate and prescribe the nature, character and extent of the
rights and privileges of members of each class respectively, and
from time to time, in its discretion, to repeal, alter or amend
such by-laws, or any of them.

All members of said corporation, and all persons hereafter
becoming members, shall, be subject to the operation and effect
of such by-laws as may be adopted in pursuance of this Act.

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

Approved April 11th, 1916.

CHAPTER 233.
(Vetoed. )