| 1811.
CHAP. 206.
Passed Jan. 7, 1812.
* Nov. 1809, ch. 138. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. CCVI.
A Supplement to the Act*, entitled, An act concerning Crimes and
Punishments. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 292. |
Convicts may pray
the court before
whom they have
been or may be
tried. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
all persons who shall have been, or may hereafter be convicted of
any crime, committed after the passage of the act to which this is
a supplement, and during the suspension thereof, he or she may
openly pray the court before whom such offender has been or shall
be tried, that sentence may be pronounced agreeably to the provisions
of said act for the like offence, in which case, the said court
shall comply with the said prayer, and pass such sentence on such
convict, as they would have passed had the said offence been committed
subsequent to the passage and operation of the act to which
this is a supplement.
See Ch. 2. |
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Passed Jan. 7, 1812. |
CHAP. CCVII.
An Act to establish a Bank and incorporate a Company under the name
of The Cumberland Bank of Allegany. Lib. TH.
No. 3, fol. 292.
Supplement, June 1812, ch. 2. |
To be established
in Cumberland. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a bank to be called and known by the name of The Cumberland
Bank of Allegany (a) shall be established in Cumberland in Allegany
county.
(a) By June 1812, ch. 2, the
name and title of this bank changed and altered to
that of The Cumberland Bank of Allegany. |
| Capital stock. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the capital stock
of this bank shall
consist of two hundred thousand dollars, money of the United States,
divided into four thousand shares of fifty dollars each, one thousand
shares thereof shall be reserved for the use and benefit of the
state, to be subscribed for in such manner as the legislature may
direct. |
Subscription
books to be opened
at Cumberland
—how and by
whom to be conducted. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That books for the subscription
of two
thousand shares of the said stock shall be opened at Cumberland,
by the commissioners hereinafter named, or a majority of them, on
the first Monday of April next; and the commissioners who shall
meet on the day so appointed for receiving the said subscriptions,
shall cause the said books to be opened at the place or places agreed
upon, at ten o'clock in the morning, and continue the same open
until five o'clock in the afternoon; and if the subscriptions shall exceed
the number of shares as above, then the said commissioners
are hereby authorised so to apportion the shares subscribed, among
the several subscribers, as may reduce the whole to the number to
be subscribed for; but if the said subscriptions shall not be filled
upon the first day, the said commissioners shall have power to adjourn
from day to day, until the whole number of shares shall be
subscribed for; and at any time after the first day, when the said
subscriptions shall be complete, it shall be the duty of the said commissioners,
immediately to close the books, and those only who
have actually subscribed previous thereto, shall be entitled to the
said stock; and it shall be the duty of Benjamin Tomlinson, Thomas
Blair, Upton Bruce, William McMahon, James Scott, George
Thistle, Jonathan Cox, John Scott and Samuel Smith, or a majority
of them, to conduct every operation of the proposed institution
until they shall be superseded by the appointment of directors. |
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