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under its constitution and by-laws, be entitled to membership
therein, and that the rights, privileges and obligations of such,
members, and other such charitable and social organizations as-
become affiliated with said body corporate, shall be determined
by the constitution and by-laws of said body corporate and the
Board of Directors of said body corporate, acting under and by
virtue of said constitution and by-laws.

And the said body corporate shall have the power to give,
lend, distribute, dispose of and convey all or any of its funds
or property in such manner and in such proportions to such of
its members, affiliated organizations or other persons or bodies
corporate as its Board of Directors acting under and by virtue
of said constitution and by-laws may determine.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said body corporate
hereby created shall be managed by a board of directors whose
number, and the manner and time of whose election or selec-
tion, and whose terms of office shall be provided for and be in
accordance with the constitution and by-laws of the body cor-
porate hereby created; and that Joseph S. Ames, John Wesley
Brown, Edward N. Brush, John R. Cary, William Bullock Clark,
Louise Dawson, Robert Garrett, B. Howell Griswold, Jr., Henry
Barton Jacobs, J. H. Mason Knox, Jr., Romaine LeMoyne Mc-
Lanahan, Edgar G. Miller, Jr., Henry C. Miller and Lawrason
Riggs are the directors who will manage for the first year the
affairs of the body corporate hereby created.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That said body corporate shall
as a charitable organization have and enjoy all the powers, pro-
visions and privileges, and be subject to all the regulations con-
tained in Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland, relating to the formation, powers and regulations of
corporations, so far as the same may not be inconsistent with
the provisions of this Act.

Approved April 11th, 1916.

CHAPTER 235.

AN ACT to add a new Section to Article 23 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland of- 1912, entitled "Cor-
porations, " sub-title "Railroad Companies, " to come in im-
mediately after Section 284, and to be designated as Section
284-A, authorizing railroad companies to acquire the prop-