tax on said shares of the capital stock of such bank
or banking association of which he is President,
Cashier, or other chief officer, as aforesaid.
197. On the failure, refusal, or neglect of any Presi-
dent, Cashier, or other chief officer of any such bank
or banking association, to furnish to the Comptroller,
by the first day of May in each year, the statement
required to be furnished by the preceding section,
such President, Cashier, or other chief officer of said
bank or banking association, shall forfeit and pay to
the State of Maryland the sum of five hundred dol-
lars, to be recovered by motion in the name of the
State in the Circuit Court of the county where the
said bank or banking association is located, or the
Superior Court of Baltimore city, if the same be lo-
cated in that city, with costs of suit, and a fee of fifty
dollars shall be taxed as part of the plaintiff's cost,
which the State's Attorney shall be entitled to receive
for prosecuting said action to a recovery; and the
State shall have the right to summon as a witness in
said action any officer of any such bank or banking
association, and cause the production in court, on the
trial of the stock book of said bank or banking as-
sociation, and to cause to be taken therefrom the
number of shares of capital stock in said bank or
banking association.
198. On the failure, refusal, or neglect of any such
bank or banking association to pay said tax on the
shares of capital stock, as provided by the preceding
sections, by the first day of July in each year, the
Comptroller shall notify the State's Attorney of the
county where the said bank or banking association
is located, or the State's Attorney for Baltimore city,
if the said bank or banking association is located
in said city, and furnish him an account of said
taxes, and the said State's Attorney shall immedi-
ately bring suit in the name of the State against the
said bank or hanking association for the said taxes,
in the Circuit Court for the county, or the Superior
Court of Baltimore city, as the case may be, and the
said suit shall stand for trial at the first term, and
judgment shall be rendered on motion, unless issue be
made, and a trial by jury be desired by either party,
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