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CHAP. 16. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and Annapolis, Frederick-Town and Hager's-Town, on
the western shore, and in the paper printed at Easton on the
eastern shore; and any number of stockholders, not less than forty,
who together shall be proprietors of one thousand shares, may at
any time apply to the president and directors to call a general
meeting of the stockholders for any purpose relative to the affairs
of the institution; and if the president and directors shall refuse to
call such meeting, the said number of stockholders, proprietors of
not less than the aforesaid number of shares, shall have power to
call a general meeting of the stockholders, giving at least two
weeks notice in one or more of the newspapers printed in the cities
of Baltimore and Annapolis, Frederick-Town and Hager's-Town,
on the western shore, and in the paper printed at Easton on the
eastern shore, specifying in such notice the object or objects of
such meeting. |
| Duration. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
continue and be in
force until the first day of February, eighteen hundred and twenty,
and until the end of the next session of the general assembly thereafter. |
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Passed Dec. 16. |
CHAP. XVII.
An Act relating to the Collection of the Public Taxes in Baltimore
County. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 157. |
Part of an act repealed
* Ch. 173 |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the third section of the act, entitled, An act to authorise the sheriffs
and collectors of the several counties of this state to complete their
collections, and for other purposes, passed at the last session of
the general assembly of this state*, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
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Passed Dec. 16 |
CHAP. XVIII.
An Act for the relief of Jacob Morriss, junior, of Somerset County.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 158. |
Expense sustained
by him in opening
a road to be ascertained |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
William Pollett, Josiah F. Polk, and Peter Dashiell, or a majority
of them, are hereby authorised and appointed commissioners, to
ascertain the expense sustained by Jacob Morriss, junior, in opening
and extending the road leading from Whittingham's Bridge, at
Princess-Anne Town, to the plantation of George Pollett, deceased,
until it intersects the county road leading from Salisbury to Steven's
ferry, at the plantation of Joshua Morriss; and also the
amount of the sum subscribed for opening the said road, and to
make return to the levy court of Somerset county of the assessment
so made by them. |
Amount to be
levied |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Somerset county
is hereby authorised and required, if the said court shall approve
of the return of the aforesaid commissioners, to levy such sum on
the county, for the use of the said Jacob, as the said court may
deem to have been necessarily expended by the said Jacob in opening
the said road, over and above the amount of the sum subscribed,
which sum, so levied, shall be collected as other county charges and
taxes are collected. |
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