270 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 314

hereby are created a body corporate and shall be known
as and by the name and style of the Conduit Road Fire
Board, Incorporated; that said corporation shall have all
the powers and privileges of a body politic and corporate,
and by said corporate name may have perpetual succession,
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of
law or equity and may have and use a common seal; that
the affairs of said corporation shall be managed by a Board
of Directors; that said Board of Directors shall exercise
all the powers hereinbefore and hereinafter granted to
said corporation except the power to nominate and elect
the members of said Board of Directors, provided, how-
ever, that nothing herein shall prevent said Board of Direc-
tors from filling a vacancy on said Board; that said Board
of Directors shall be elected as hereinafter prescribed;
* that said corporation also shall have power to cause to
be organized one or more volunteer fire fighting com-
panies, auxiliary to said corporation, to approve or dis-
approve the officers thereof, to make rules to govern same,
and to maintain discipline therein; to make, alter and
amend by-laws, rules and regulations for said corporation;
to take title to real estate, and to alienate same; to borrow
money and to secure the payment thereof; to build, alter
and improve one or more fire houses; to acquire by pur-
chase or otherwise fire fighting apparatus and equipment;
to install fire alarms, telephones, radios, telegraph instru-
ments and other means of communication; to acquire
equipment for the purpose of saving human life from loss
by fire, drowning or other accident; to report the financial
condition thereof annually to the Board of County Commis-
sioners of said county; to make contracts for necessary
supplies of all kinds; to employ firemen; to insure said
corporation, and its property against loss by reason of
accident or actions at law for damages, and to insure also
the members of said auxiliary organization and the widows
or/and the dependent next of kin of said members against
loss by reason of accidental injury or death; to accept gifts
or bequests of money or property; to build up a capital
fund; that said Board of Directors shall organize by
electing from the members thereof a president, two vice-
presidents, a secretary, a treasurer and an executive com-
mittee; that the persons so elected shall be officers of said
corporation.

(b) The said Board shall fill any vacancy in any
office or any vacancy on said Board, provided, however,
that due regard be shown to the geographical distribu-
tion of said Board members; said Board of Directors
shall be made up of three members elected from candi-
dates at large in said area, and one member from each of