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any compensation for services, nor be interested in any
contract relating to said hospital or the supplies thereof.
Daniel A. Stickell, John S. Kausler, Wm. P. Lane, Sr., W.
H. McCardell, Harry Newcomer, W. Geary Porter, Stanley
P. F. Kline, W. D. Byron, Omer T. Kaylor and Edward
Oswald shall constitute the first Board of Trustees and the
term of office of said Trustees shall be for life and their
successors shall be appointed by the Governor. In case of
a vacancy the Governor shall appoint his successor from a
list of three names, to be submitted by a majority of the
Trustees.

4. The persons named in Section 3, or such of them as
accept this appointment, and such other persons as may be
appointed as herein provided, shall be the trustees of the
said corporation, and shall have power to make by-laws, not *
inconsistent with law, and to alter the same; to nominate
persons to fill vacancies which may occur in their number
by non-acceptance, death, resignation or otherwise; to ap-
point all necessary physicians, surgeons, assistants, stew-
ards, nurses and servants, and to fix their compensation
and to discharge them whenever they shall deem it expedi-
ent to do so; to make all needful rules and regulations for
the government of their proceedings and for the admission
of persons to said hospital. And if at any time all of said
trustees shall have died, removed from the county, resigned
or have become incapacitated to discharge the duties of
trustees as required by this Act. The Governor is author-
ized to select trustees, who shall have all the powers herein
conferred for the control of the affairs of said association
and for continuing the succession of trustees in perpetuity;
the purpose being by this means to maintain in perpetuity
a complete governing body of trustees for the said "The
Washington County Hospital Association. "

5. A majority of all the trustees shall constitute a
quorum for the transaction of business, and said board may
appoint from their number a president, a vice-president,
treasurer, secretary and such other officers as such board
may deem necessary, in the manner, at the time, and for
the term to be prescribed in the by-laws; every trustee of
said corporation, before proceeding to act, shall qualify
by taking the test oath required by the Constitution and
laws of the State of Maryland, a certificate of which quali-
fication shall be recorded on the minutes of the proceedings
of the board of trustees.