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Directors ap-
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SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That William B.
Stone, Walter Mitchell, Josias H. Hawkins, John
Hamilton, George P. Jenkins, James H. Neal,
George Brent, Frederick Stone, Samuel Cox,
George Dent, William B. Matthews, Francis W.
Weems, Barnes Compton, Pembroke A. Brawner,
Uzziel Nally, John W. Jenkins, Francis R. Wills,
William Boswell, Elijah Day, Peregrine Davis,
Chapman Billingsly, John M. Beare, Caleb Jones,
George H. Morgan, John J. Hillstone, William
E. Cole, William Henry Thomas, William Coad,
Thomas Slye, William O. Reeder, Joseph Shem-
mell, Francis C. Neale, L. W. B. Hutchins, Al-
bert Burch, Daniel Washington, E. Leo Spaul-
ding, George C. Morgan, George Coombs, Joseph
Forrest and Benjamin G. Harris, are hereby
created directors of said Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of St. Mary's and Charles counties,
until the first Monday in January, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty, and until their successors shall
be elected as hereinafter provided for, and such
of them as shall he present at the first meeting
shall proceed to organize the company by elect-
ing a president and secretary thereof and as soon
thereafter as practicable adopt a form of consti-
tution and by-laws, to provide the necessary
books and otherwise prepare the company for the
transaction of business, and when so prepared to
exercise general superintendence of the affairs of
the company, and the board of directors above
named and any other board of directors that may
be hereafter elected as herereinafter provided for,
shall have authority to allow any officer or offi-
cers in the employ of the company, such salaries,
fees or compensation as they may deem proper,
and all officers of the company, other than direc-
tors, shall be appointed annually by such direc-
tors as shall be present at the first meeting of
the board after the annual election of directors,
and in case of any vacancy or vacancies occurring
in the board of directors, at any time or times
from any cause whatever, such vacancy or vacan-
cies shall be filled by the remainder of the board
until the time of holding the next annual elec-
tion.
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