THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

government of this State, as relates to the appointment of

the treasurer of this State, and directs that he shall be
appointed by the House of Delegates during their plea-
sure be, and the same is hereby repealed, abrogated and
annulled, and that from and alter the confirmation of this
act, in the manner hereinafter provided, the said trea-
surer shall be appointed by the concurrent vote of the two

Houses of the General Assembly.

CHAP. 352.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the treasurer who

may be in office at time of the confirmation of this act,

shall continue and and remain therein, until a successor
shall be appointed in the manner hereinbefore provided,

and shall qualify as by existing laws is required.

Treasurer in
office at the
time to conti-

nue &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if this act shall be

confirmed by the General Assembly, after the next elec-
tion of Delegates in the first session after such new elec-
tion, as the constitution and form of Government directs,
in such case this act and the alterations in the constitu-
tion and form of government therein contained, shall be
taken and considered, and shall constitute and be valid
as a part of said constitution and form of government, to
all intents and purposes, any thing in the said constitution
aud form of government to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAPTER 352.

If confirmed,
to be part of
the constitu-

tion.

An act to incorporate the President and Directors of the
Associated Firemen's Insurance Company in ike City
of Baltimore, and to repeal the act entitled, an act to
incorporate the President and Directors of the Associa-
tion of Active Firemen in the City of Baltimore, passed
at December session, eighteen hundred and forty-five,

chapter three hundred and seventy-two.

Passed March
9, 1847.

WHEREAS, experience having shown that the act
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and forty-
five, entitled, an act to incorporate the president and
directors of the association of Active Firemen in the city
of Baltimore, is inadequate to the object sought to be
attained, and believing that another insurance company
against loss by fire, based upon proper principles, is ne-
cessary in the city of Baltimore, from the large increase
of property and business of the city, and for the purpose
of securing to themselves whatever benefit is to be de-
rived from similar associations — Therefore,

Preamble.