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and the said Directors shall hold regular meetings at least once
in each month to receive the reports of their officers as to the
business and affairs of the corporation, and to transact such
business as may be necessary, and any Director omitting to

attend the regular meeting of the Board for three months in
succession, may thereupon, at the election of the Board, be
considered as having vacated his place, and a successor may
be elected to fill the same; any Director may be removed from
office by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Directors pre-
sent, who are voting, provided there are at least nine affirma-
tive votes cast for his removal.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 374.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendment Section 307 of
Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title, "Cor-
porations, " sub-title, "Railroad Companies. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 307 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Corporations, " sub-title, ''Railroad Compan-
ies, " be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

307. Railroad companies shall be responsible for injuries re-
sulting in death or otherwise inflicted upon any stock, as cattle,
horses, sheep, hogs, and so forth, or by fire occasioned by their
engines or carriages, upon any of their roads and branches
thereof, unless the said companies can prove to the satisfaction
of the justice or other tribunal before which the suit may be
tried that the injury complained of was committed without any
negligence on the part of the company or its agents; provided,
however, that no such presumption of negligence on the part of
Railroad Companies shall arise in any case of fire occurring in
or about water front or other railroad terminals used for re-
ceiving, delivering or transhipping freight, in the handling of
which and the ordinary conduct of business therein, persons not
in the employ or under the control of such Railroad Companies,
their servants and agents, are engaged in and about such prem-
ises, and where negligence on the part of such persons, their
servants or agents, may have caused or contributed to the origin
of such fire.

Approved April 9. 1924.