1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND,

CHAP. 173.
In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from and after the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 173.

Passed Feb. 27,
1850.

An additional supplement to an act entitled, an act to.
incorporate the Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
forty-two, chapter two hundred and fourteen.

Additional di-
rectors author-
ised.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the board of directors of the Mu-
tual Fire Insurance company in Harford county, are here-
by authorised and empowered as soon as this supplement
shall have been accepted as is hereinafter provided, to
appoint three additional directors residents of Baltimore
county, to serve until the firm Monday in January, eigh-
teen hundred and fifty-one, and that the said company
shall then annually thereafter, elect, eighteen directors
instead of fifteen, in manner prescribed by their char-
ters, eight of whom at least shall be residents of Bal-
timore county.

Application
to be made in
writing.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all applications for
insurance in the said company shall be made in writing
and signed by the party or parties making the same,
and when such applications shall be made and the pre-
mium note for insurance executed and passed to the
the company, the same shall be deemed and taken as
full an assent to the constitution and bye-laws of said
company, as if made according to the requirements of
the second section of the original charter of said com-
pany, and that any insurances heretofore made of such
character, shall be good and valid between the company
and said parties.

Trust property
may be insured.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall
and may be lawful for any person possessing a life es-
tate in real property, or any person holding such pro-
perty in trust, to insure the same in said company, an4
that the premium note given for such insurance, shall
be alien upon such property.

Females may
vote by proxy.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all female
members of said company shall be privileged to appear
and vote in all company meetings, by proxy.

Members com-
petent as wit-
nesses.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That in any
suit at law or equity, by or against said company, no