LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1826.

875

an act concerning crimes and punishments, passed at November

session, in the year eighteen hundred and nine,* as prescribes a
different punishment for the above mentioned offences, be and
the same is hereby repealed.

*ch. 138.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That nothing herein contained
shall operate to abate any prosecution now pending under the
laws of this state.
SEC. 5. And be enacted. That all such offences committed
before the passage of this act, as are embraced by this act, shall
be and they are hereby directed to be proceeded against and
punished, as the same would have been proceeded against and
punished if this act had not passed.

CHAPTER 99.

AN ACT to make valid certain Proceedings therein mentioned.
Other acts are, 1832, ch. 152.

Not to
abate any
prosecution
now,
pending.
Offences
committed
before the
passage of
this act to
be proceed-
ed against.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all discounts heretofore made by any of the banks of this
state, wherein the rate of interest has been calculated according
to the standard laid down in Rowlett's Tables, be, and they are
hereby declared to be, valid to all intents and purposes, any
law of this state to the contrary notwithstanding, provided that
in all other respects they shall have complied with the laws of
this state.

Discounts
heretofore
made by
banks, cal-
culated by
Rewlett's
Tables,
made valid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That no court of law within this
state shall entertain or admit the plea of usury, to bar any claim
due to any bank incorporated by the legislature of this state,
where the rate of interest, charged by such bank, has been
calculated or deducted according to the interest tables of
Rowlett.

Plea of
usury not
permitted
when in-
terest is
charged as
'above.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in future the several banks
of this state shall be governed, in their discounts, by the rates
of interest as charged and set forth in Rowlett's Tables.

CHAPTER 155.
A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the better regulation
of Apprentices.
See notes to the original act, ante page 294.

Banks to be
governed,
in their dis-
counts, by
Rowlett.

WHEREAS, it is represented to the general assembly, that
under the act of assembly, passed at November session, seven-

Preamble.

teen hundred and ninety-four,* entitled, a supplement to an act,
entitled, an act for the better regulation of apprentices, justices
of the peace, remote from the seat of justice of the counties, and
unapprized of the orphans courts being in session, have, during
the sessions of said courts, bound out apprentices, agreeably to
the terms, regulations and restrictions, prescribed by the act to

*Ch. 47.