1022 ARTICLE 4.

insurance, of affreightment, or of any other transaction, of whatever spe-
cific class, pertaining to trade, commerce, navigation, manufactures or me-
chanical arts, or business connected with any of these, or contracts for per-
sonal work, labor and service done or rendered, or to be done or rendered,
in and about the pursuit and transactions of trade, commerce, navigation,
manufactures or mechancial arts, one or more of the parties to which con-
troversies is or are members of the said corporation, in all cases wherein
such controversy is by the consent of all the parties thereto, signified by a
submission in writing, referred for adjudication and settlement to said
court.

As to rule when Public Local and Public General laws conflict, see Everett v.
Avery, 19 Md. 143. Mayor v. Groshon, 30 Md. 436. Cooper v. Holmes, 71 Md. 20.
McCracken v. State, 71 Md. 54. State v. Falkenham, 73 Md. 466, 467. Hooper v.
Creager, 84 Md. 259. Herbert v. Co. Com'rs, Balto. Co., 97 Md. 639.

1878, ch. 383. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 66.

224. In order to the due and effective execution of the power in the
next preceding section granted, the said corporation shall have the further
power, either directly in corporate meeting, whether the regular annual
meeting or a special meeting called for the purpose by reasonable notice to
all the members, of the time, place and object thereof, by advertisement in
one or more of the daily newspapers of the City of Baltimore, or else by
delegation, in such meeting, by rule or otherwise, made through the officers,
and directors, constituting the Board of Directors or management of said
corporation, in either case by the concurring votes of a majority of the
members of said corporation or Board of Directors, as the case shall be,
present at such meeting of the one or the other for the purpose—provided
there be then and there a quorum present, as constituted by the Constitu-
tion, Articles of Association or By-Laws of the said corporation or Board
of Directors—from time to time to elect from among those persons who
have been, or before any such election shall have been, admitted to prac-
tice law in this State, one learned in the law and possessing such other
qualifications as the said corporation shall, by rule or regulation, as here-
inafter empowered, prescribe, whether such person be a member of said
corporation or not, unless otherwise provided by such rule or regulation, as
Judge of the said Court of Arbitration, and also to elect in like manner,
or to provide for the election or appointment of a Clerk of the said Court;
and shall have power also, by rules and regulations duly adopted by the
said corporation in such corporate meeting as aforesaid, or by the delega-
tion of said corporation in such meetings made by its said Board of Direc-
tors to define the duties, powers and functions of the said Judge and of the
said Clerk, and of any other members or officers of the said Court of Arbi-
tration provided for as hereinafter is authorized, and to determine the
jurisdiction of the said Judge, original and appellate, whether sitting
alone or with laymen, members of the said corporation associated with
him, and to fix the term of time for which the said Judge and the said
Clerk, respectively, shall be elected, and the terms and conditions upon
which each shall hold or continue to hold his office, and the amount and