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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
for every day the same shall continue, to the use of Baltimore
county, to be recovered by action of debt at the suit of the state. |
1808.
CHAP. 79. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
lawful for the
said corporation to enter into any negotiations on bills or notes,
nor to seal in exchange, discount, or other commercial or banking
operation, other than to vest their capital in stocks of chartered
companies, or in public securities, or to borrow money as may be
found necessary for the carrying on the works proposed; and dividends
of the profits of the stock shall be annually made, reserving
only, at the discretion of the directors, such proportion as they, or
a majority of stockholders, shall deem sufficient for maintaining
and supporting the works necessary to promote or attain the object
of this incorporation; and if the said corporation shall not carry
into effect the intentions of this act, within five years from the
passage thereof, in that case all the powers hereby vested in them
shall cease and determine. |
Corporation not
to deal in any
banking operation
other than to vest
the capital in
stocks, &c. |
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all acts of assembly
heretofore
passed on this subject, be, and the same are hereby declared to be,
repealed, null and void. |
Acts repealed. |
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CHAP. LXXX.
An Act to establish and confirm certain Acts done by Justices of
the
Peace
in Allegany County. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 76. |
Passed Dec. 24. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if
any justice or justices of the peace in Allegany county, holding,
or having held, any office of profit or trust under the government
of the United States since the fourth day of November, seventeen
hundred and ninety-nine, hath acted, or shall have acted, at the
same time as a justice or justices of the peace in Allegany county,
in every such case all and singular the act or acts done, performed
or executed, by or before such justice or justices, of the peace
aforesaid, by virtue of his or their official authority under this state,
and within the proper limits of his or their jurisdiction, shall be
and the same are hereby declared valid and effectual, to all intents
and purposes, in the like manner as if some justice or justices of
the peace aforesaid, at the time of doing or performing such act or
acts, had not held any office of profit or trust under the government
of the United States. |
Certain acts declared
valid. |
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CHAP. LXXXI.
A Further Supplement to the act (a), entitled, An act relating
to Servants
and Slaves. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 77.
(a) 1715, ch. 44. See 1814, ch. 92. |
Passed Dec. 24. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in
all criminal prosecutions against any negro or mulatto slave, or
against any mulatto descended from a white woman, or against
any negro or mulatto free or freed, the testimony of any negro or
mulatto slave, or the testimony of any mulatto, descendant from a
white woman, or the testimony of any negro or mulatto free or
freed, may be received in evidence for or against them, any law
now existing to the contrary notwithstanding.
See 1751, ch. 14, s. 4, and 1801, ch. 109. |
In criminal prosecutions
against negroes,
&c.
testimony of slaves
&c. may be received. |
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