| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any person or body
politic may
hold any number of shares over and above ten shares in the said
company, which shall have been previously allowed and approved
by the board of directors; but in all such cases other and approved
endorsers to the promissory notes aforesaid, must be given by the
stockholder so claiming to hold the additional number of shares,
and in no case shall the same endorser be taken and received as
sufficient for more than ten shares; and all stockholders shall be
eligible as directors of said company. |
1815.
CHAP. 213.
Person may hold
any number of
shares. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the
act to which this
is a supplement, as interferes with, or is repugnant to this act, be
and the same is hereby repealed. |
Part of an act repealed. |
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CHAP. CCXIV.
A Further Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act to regulate the
Inspection
of Tobacco. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 104. |
Passed Jan. 29, 1816.
* 1801, ch. 63. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the inspectors at the several tobacco warehouses shall on or before
the first day of April next, and in the same month of every
year thereafter, cause to be inserted in some one of the Baltimore
newspapers, once in each week for three months, and set up at the
court-house door of his county on advertisement, stating the name
of the warehouse, the weight, gross, tare and net, the number and
the person in whose name the same may have been inspected, of
all tobacco which may have remained in his warehouse for the
space of four years, the owners whereof are unknown to the inspector;
and if the owner of such tobacco shall not apply for the
same within six months from the date of such advertisement, and
pay the warehouse charges due on said tobacco, and the cost of
advertisement, it shall be the duty of the inspector to sell the same
at public sale; and the several inspectors shall annually account
with and pay to the levy court the amount which they may have
received for any tobacco sold as aforesaid for the use of the
county. |
Inspectors to advertise
tobacco
which has remained
in warehouses
four years. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the owner of
any tobacco
sold as aforesaid, shall within one year from the sale thereof satisfy
the levy court of the county wherein the same may have been sold,
that the tobacco so sold was his right and property, the said levy
court shall at the time of laying the next county levy, assess and
levy on said county for the use of the said owner, the principal
sum which the said levy court may have received for such tobacco,
deducting therefrom the warehouse charges due thereon, together
with the costs of advertising. |
Owners applying
for same within
one year to be allowed
therefor. |
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CHAP. CCXV.
An Act to alter the times of the holding of the Court of Appeals,
and
for other purposes. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 106. |
Passed Jan. 29, 1816. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the first day of February next, the court of appeals
shall be holden, for the western shore, at the city of Annapolis, on
the first Mondays in the months of June (a) and December in each
and every year; and that from and after the passage of this act, the
(a) By 1816, ch. 151, changed to the second Monday in June. |
Terms—when to
be holden. |
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