CHARLES RIDGELY, (of Hampton) Esq. Governor.

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13. AND BE IT ENACTED, The the said premium
committee may at any time they may think proper, return a part
or the Whole of their unappropriated funds to the president and
directors of the Athenian Society to be divided among the stock-
holders as a surplus dividend.
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That to insure the steady at-
tention of the president and directors to the duties which the
interests of the society require of them, they shall hold regular
and stated meetings once in every month, and oftener if they
shall deem it necessary; and at every meeting the names of
the members attending shall be entered in their proceedings ;
and if any member shall neglect to qualify or to attend for three
succeeding meetings without such excuse in writing of neces-
sary absence as shall be judged reasonable by a board of said
directors duly assembled at one of the meetings aforesaid, such
board of directors so assembled shall proceed to fill up the seat
and place of such members.
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this corporation may
be dissolved on the written application of two thirds of the
stockholders in number, who shall also be bona fide proprietors
of two thirds of the whole stock in amount; and in that event
it shall be the duty of the president and directors then being, to
settle up all the concerns of the society without unnecessary de-
lay, and to divide and distribute the whole balance and net pro-
ceeds thereof among the stockholders according to their respec-
tive interest; Provided, that no suit then pending for or against
the said corporation shall be thereby abated, nor any contract
then subsisting by or with the said corporation be in any man-
ner thereby altered or impaired.
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the act entitled, an
act to incorporate the president and directors of the Athenian
Society, passed November session eighteen hundred and ten, be,
and the same is hereby repealed.

Dec. Sess.

1815.

Unappropri-
ated funds.

Vacancies.

Dissolution.

Proviso.
Repeal.

CHAPTER 217.
A supplement to the act entitled, an act to extend Aisquith
street in the city of Baltimore.
Sec. 1. BEIT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Thomas Kell, Peter Bond and James Hutton,
be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they or
a majority of them are hereby authorised and directed upon the
application of any person or persons whose property lies out of
the city of Baltimore, who shall think himself, herself or them-
selves aggrieved by opening Aisquith street, as authorised by
the act to which this is a supplement, to meet upon the premi-
ses within twenty days after such application is made, of which
six days notice shall be given to the party or parties interested,
and said commissioners when so met, and having each first ta-
ken an oath before some justice of the peace that he will with-
out favor, affection, prejudice or partiality, assess the damages
sustained by the person or persons at whose request such inqui-
sition shall be taken by reason of opening the said street through
his, her or their property, shall thereupon proceed to assess
and value the damages accordingly, taking into consideration
the advantages and disadvantages, if any, and such inquisition;
and valuation shall be final and conducive between the parties

Passed Jan.
29, 1816.

Grievances—
remedy.