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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
24. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any director, officer,
or other
person, having any share or capital of the said bank stock, who
shall commit any fraud or embezzlement touching the money or
property of the bank, shall be liable to be prosecuted in the name
of the state, by indictment for the same, in any court of law in
this state, and upon conviction thereof shall, besides the remedy
that may be had by action in the name of the president and directors
of the Farmers Bank of Somerset and Worcester, for the fraud
aforesaid, forfeit all his share or stock in the said bank to the company. |
1814.
CHAP. 67.
Frauds or embezzlements. |
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CHAP. LXVIII.
An Act for the relief of Willy Janes, of Montgomery County.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 301. A Private Act. |
Passed Jan. 21, 1815. |
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CHAP. LXIX.
An Act to establish a Bank, and incorporate a Company, under the
name of The Havre-de-Grace Bank. Lib. TH.
No. 4, fol. 302.
Supplements 1815, ch. 159; and 1816, ch. 194. |
Passed Jan. 23, 1815. |
WHEREAS the agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing
interests
of this state, will be promoted by the establishment of a
bank at Havre-de-Grace, in Harford county; therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a bank, to be called and known by the name of The Havre-de-Grace
Bank, shall be established in the town of Havre-de-Grace,
in Harford county. |
Bank established. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the capital stock
of this bank shall
consist of three hundred thousand dollars, divided into six thousand
shares of fifty dollars each, five hundred 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, and the remaining
five thousand five hundred shares shall be allotted to Harford and
Cecil counties, and Baltimore county and city, and subscribed for
in manner following, viz: For Harford county, for four thousand
shares, at Havre-de-Grace, under the direction of Samuel Hughes,
Elijah Davis, William B. Stokes, Abraham Jarrett, Paca Smith,
Edward Hall, Edward Griffith, Francis J. Dallam and Charles S.
Sewell, or any two of them; at Belle-Air, under the direction of
Thomas A. Hays, John Moores and John Norris, of Edward, or
any two of them; and at Abingdon, under the direction of Benjamin
Nowland, William Allen and William Wilson, or any two of them;
at Baltimore, for the city and county of Baltimore, for one thousand
shares, under the direction of Charles Ridgely, of Hampton,
Robert Smith, Samuel G. Griffith and John H. Barney, or any
two of them; at Elkton, for Cecil county, for five hundred shares,
under the direction of Tobias Rudolph, William Hollingsworth, of
Zebulon, and John N. Black, or any two of them. |
Capital allotment
of shares, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That books for the subscription
of the
said stock shall be opened by the commissioners aforesaid, on a day
to be by them appointed for that purpose, and by them notified in
the most public places in the respective counties, and for the city of
Baltimore in the public newspapers, at least four weeks previous
thereto; and the commissioners who shall meet on the day so appointed
for receiving the said subscriptions, shall cause the said |
Books to be opened
for subscriptions. |
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