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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1834.

said tracts of land, and to award writs of possession for the
whole of said tracts, as well the portion lying out of the county,
as that within it.

CHAPTER 84.

1832, ch.
303.

A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act relating to the
Importation of Passengers.

Repeal.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That so much of the second section of the act, to which this is
a supplement, as allows the master or commander of a vessel,
in place of paying the assessment of one dollar and fifty cents
for each passenger, to enter into bond with sureties for saving
harmless and indemnifying the mayor and city council of Balti-
more, and the trustees of the poor for Baltimore city and county,
be and the same is hereby repealed.

Register's
fee.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the register of the city of
Baltimore shall be entitled to, for his services under the said
act, and shall have out of the moneys to be collected by virtue
of said act, two per centum upon such moneys.

Exemption.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That the said act shall not be
deemed to extend to any ambassadors, or ministers, or consuls,
or agents of foreign governments, arriving as passengers in the
port of Baltimore.

CHAPTER 89.

AN ACT to regulate the Proceedings of Foreign Corporations within this
State.
See 1834, ch. 305.

Insuring or
contracting
business in
this state,
construed
as exercis-
ing fran-
chises.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any insurance company not chartered by the laws of this
state, which shall effect, or shall have effected insurance upon
any property real or personal, or upon life or lives, within this
state, and any corporation, not chartered by the laws of this
state, which shall transactor shall have transacted business
within this state, shall be deemed to hold and exercise fran-
chises within this state.

And liable
to suit.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That where any insurance com-
pany or other corporation, as aforesaid, shall hold and exercise,
or shall have held and exercised franchises, as aforesaid, within
this state, such insurance company or other corporations, shall
be liable to suit within this state, in the courts of this state
upon contracts of insurance on property or lives within this
state, or on any dealing or transaction in this state.

Service of
process.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when any suit shall be insti-
tuted against such insurance company, or other corporations so
chartered as aforesaid, that service of the writ issued in such