PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

thereto, and upon payment of such fees, charges and
premiums as may be demanded by the proper officers of
said corporation, be constituted members of the said as-
sociation, and as such shall be bound by all the rules
and regulations thereof, as contained in this act, and in
the constitution and bye-laws of the said association.

CHAP. 467.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful for the directors of the said association, to require
and receive from any member applying for benefits, ac-
cording to the provisions of the constitution of said asso-
ciation, security, in the form of a mortgage or other evi-
dence of debt, at their option, for the true and faithful
discharge of his duties as benefited member, and upon
refusal or neglect on the part of a member, so applying,
to provide anil give such security, to withhold from him
all benefits until such security is given, or until he be-
comes thereto entitled by the provisions of said consti-
tution, without giving security.

Security to be
given.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all persons, at any
time members of said association, and who may not
have withdrawn therefrom, in accordance with the pro-
visions of its constitution, shall be jointly responsible to
the other members thereof for the benefits to which they
may become entitled, by the provisions of this act, or by
the constitution and bye-laws of said association.

Responsibility
of members.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said association
shall have, and is hereby invested with full power and
authority to make any bye-law or bye-laws, whereby
any member thereof, failing to pay the assessments, ac-
cording to the constitution and bye-laws of the said as-
sociation, until the fines imposed for such neglect or re-
fusal equal, in amount the entire sum of the assessments
paid in by such member, may be excluded from all and
every benefit, that he might otherwise have become en-
tided to.

May establish
bye -laws.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the constitution
and bye-laws of said association, shall only be amended
or altered, saving however the condition expressed in
the fourth section of this act, which shall remain unal-
terable, by a general meeting of the members of said
association, convened in pursuance of public notice,
given in at least one newspaper published in the city of
Baltimore, when each member present shall have one
vote, and two-thirds of the votes thus given shall decide,
and any alteration or amendment of the constitution or
bye-laws, that may be thus made, shall be binding on
all the members of said association.

Alteration and
amendment.