PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

CHAPTER 63.

CHAP. 63.

An act supplementary to an act passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and forty-two, chapter two
hundred and fourteen.

Passed Feb. 4
1850.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all applications for insurance in the
Mutual Fire Insurance Company in Harford county,
shall be made in writing, and signed by the party or
parties making such application, and that such signa-
ture shall be deemed as full an assent to the charter,
constitution, and bye-laws, of said company, as if
made according to the requirements of the second sec-
tion of the act to which this act is a supplement.

Proxies autho-
rised.

SEC 2. And be it enacted, That it may and shall
be lawful for any married woman, with the assent of
her husband, signified by his signature to the appli-
cation for insurance, to apply for, and have insurance
in said company, on the property of said married wo-
man, and that the premium note given by such mar-
ried woman and her husband, shall be a lien upon
the real estate so insured, and shall be as binding and
effectual upon such married woman, as if she were
sole and unmarried.

Married wo-
men may in-
sure.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That at the next annual
election, and every annual election thereafter, of di-
rectors of said company, it shall and may be lawful
for the said company to elect, in manner provided by
their charter, three directors for Baltimore county, in
addition to those already authorized by the original
act to which this is a supplement, and that at such
election, and at all meetings of the stockholders or
members of said company, each member or person
insured shall have one vote, and may be present and
vote in person or by proxy.

Additional di-
rectors.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall be in
force and take effect as soon as the same shall be ac-
cepted and assented to by the said company, as part
of their charter, and that the Legislature reserves to
itself the right, at any time, to change, alter or annul
this act.

Reservation.