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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CVIII.
An Act to prevent the increase of Banking Companies. Lib.
TH.
No. 2, fol. 579. |
1810.
CHAP. 108.
Passed Dec. 24. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
after the first day of January next, it shall not be lawful for any
persons to associate together for the purpose of forming themselves
into a banking company, without first applying to the general assembly
and obtaining an act of incorporation, but if persons shall
associate together with an intention of creating a banking company,
and shall proceed to appoint a day to receive subscriptions for the
shares into which the capital stock is to be divided, each person
who shall act as a commissioner, director or manager, for receiving
such subscriptions, shall forfeit and pay two thousand dollars,
one half to the informer, and the other half to the county,
to be recovered by action of debt in the county court of the county
where such offence may be committed. |
No persons to associate
for forming
banking company
without first
applying to legislature. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons shall act
as commissioners, directors or managers, for the purpose aforementioned,
that any person, copartnership or body politic, that
shall subscribe for any share or shares in such contemplated bank,
shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars, one half to
the informer, and the other half to the county, to be recovered by
action of debt in the county court of the county where such offence
may be committed. |
Penalty on persons
subscribing
for shares in any
such contemplated
bank. |
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CHAP. CIX.
An Additional Supplement to an Act*, entitled, An act to prevent
the
going at large of Swine in the Village of Hillsborough,
in Caroline
County, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
Lib. TH. No.
2, fol. 579. |
Passed Dec. 24.
* 1806, ch. 25. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the
trustees of Hillsborough school, that the acts of assembly heretofore
passed intending to compel the person appointed bailiff for
said village, is found inadequate for that purpose; and it is likewise
represented by the said trustees, that a number of children are enticed
away from the charity school, at said village, by artful and
designing persons, after having been clothed by the funds of said
school, before they acquire a knowledge of common arithmetic;
therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
when any person shall be appointed bailiff of said village, agreeably
to law, and such person being so appointed shall refuse or neglect
to qualify as the law requires, after having five days notice of
his appointment, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty
dollars nor less than ten dollars, to be recovered, in the name of
the trustees of Hillsborough school, before a justice of the peace
of the said county, as other small debts are, and applied to the use
of said school.
See 1798, ch. 33, and 1807, ch. 32. |
Person appointed
bailiff, and refusing
to qualify, to
be fined. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when any child
shall be admitted
into Hillsborough school, on charity, from and after the first day
of May next, shall depart therefrom without permission from the
teacher, or one of the trustees, and shall be concealed or harboured
by any person for the space of five days, such person so concealing |
Penalty on person
harbouring any
child admitted on
charity into
Hillsborough
school, and departing
therefrom
without leave. |
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