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necessity of any meeting or vote of stockholders or mem-
bers (a) in the case of a corporation having a capital stock,
if there are at the time no shares of stock outstanding and
entitled to vote thereon, or (b) whether or not the corpora-
tion has a capital stock, if the amendment consists only of a
change in the name of the corporation to delete therefrom
the name of the county or city in which the corporation
was formed. If so adopted, articles of amendment setting
forth such amendment or amendments and stating that
the same has or have been duly adopted by vote of a major-
ity of the entire board of directors, and that (a) at the
time of such adoption there were no shares of stock out-
standing and entitled to vote thereon, or (b) that the
amendment consist only of a change in the name of the
corporation to delete therefrom the name of the county or
city in which the corporation was formed, shall be signed
and acknowledged in the name and on behalf of the corpor-
ation by the president or a vice-president with the corpor-
ate seal affixed and attested by the secretary or an assistant
secretary, and the matters and facts set forth in said arti-
cles of amendment shall be verified under oath by the
chairman or the secretary of the meeting of the board of
directors at which such amendment or amendments was or
were adopted.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect on June 1, 1949.

Approved April 29, 1949.

CHAPTER 486
(Senate Bill 434)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
38 (c) of Article 1A of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "City of Cumber-
land", sub-title "Police and Fire", as said section was
amended by Chapter 659 of the Acts of 1947; and to
repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-sections (a)
and (b) of Section 38A of Article 1A of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"City of Cumberland', sub-title "Police and Fire", as
said sub-sections were amended by Chapter 671 of the
Acts of 1947, relating to leave of absence and vacations
of the Police and Firemen in Cumberland.