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which may arise in business between the members of said organization
or said members and other persons as may be voluntarily submitted to
the said committee for arbitration; and such members and persons may
by an instrument in writing, signed by them and attested by a subscribing
witness, agree to submit to the decision of said committee any such con-
troversy so arising as might be the subject of an action at law or in equity,
except claims of title to real estate.

1870. ch. 136. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 69.

227. The mode of proceeding of said Arbitration Committee, shall be
regulated by the by-laws of the corporation, which shall be substantially
complied with in all cases, without prejudice, however, to any award from
merely formal irregularity. The said committee shall have power to
apply to any Justice of the Peace for the City of Baltimore to issue sub-
poenas and other compulsory process to procure the attendance of witnesses
before it; and all justices so applied to in writing, signed by the chairman
or acting chairman of said committee, shall issue such process forthwith,
the cost of the same, and of the attendance of the witnesses so summoned,
to be the same as in civil suits before such justices, and to be collectible
from the parties on whose behalf the said witnesses shall be summoned
and attend, in the same manner and by the same means, as if adjudged
to be paid by a judgment of the justice who shall act in the premises in
a civil suit between the same parties depending before him. A majority
of said committee may act in all cases, and a majority of such majority
shall have power to render an award in the name of and as an act of the
committee. No dissenting award or opinions shall be rendered or placed
among the proceedings, or upon the records of the committee or the cor-
poration; the award of the committee rendered in conformity herewith,
and as prescribed by the by-laws, shall be conclusive on all parties to the
submission. It shall in all cases be in writing, signed by the members of
the committee who agreed upon it, and filed among the proceedings of the
committee, but copies shall be given by the secretary, with his attestation
and the seal of the corporation attached, to the respective parties, as soon
as may be after said award shall have been rendered.

As to setting aside an award under arbitration, see Mitchell Y. Price, Daily Rec-
ord. February 10. 1894. In relation to arbitration and award, see also Roberts v.
Consumers Can Co.. 102 Md. 362.

1870. ch. 136. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 70.

228. If the parties to any submission shall agree to do so they may
stipulate as part of said submission, in writing, that the award of the
committee rendered in conformity herewith and with the by-laws, shall
stand and avail as against them to the same effect as a judgment or decree
of a court of competent jurisdiction, in which case either party desiring
and entitled to the enforcement of said award, may file a copy of the
same and of the submission, attested under seal by the secretary of the
corporation, for record with the clerk of any court of this State having
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