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CHAP. 154.
Commissioners
may retain money
to pay expenses. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
19. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said commissioners
be and they
are hereby authorised and empowered, to retain out of the monies
which may come to their hands, a sufficient sum from time to time
to pay and discharge the expenses of drawing said lotteries, including
the rent of an office for transacting their business, or drawing
said lotteries, rendering an account thereof to the treasurer in the
first return made to him after such expenses are actually paid. |
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Passed Feb. 11, 1818. |
CHAP. CLV.
An Act to confirm the title to sundry Lots of Ground to the Trustees
of that part of the Methodist Episcopal Church
called Sardis Chapel,
in Talbot County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 87. |
Right vested in
trustees. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
all the right, title, interest and claim, of, in and to, half of lot
number thirty-seven, and half of lot number thirty-eight, as described
in the plot of St. Michael's, in Talbot county, and expressed
in a deed from James Braddock to James Benson and others,
trustees for the society called Methodists, bearing date the sixth
day of June, seventeen hundred and eighty-two, be and the same is
hereby vested in, and confirmed to, the trustees and their successors,
of that part of the Methodist Episcopal Church called Sardis
Chapel in Talbot county, any deficiency or defect in said deed notwithstanding. |
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Passed Feb. 11, 1818. |
CHAP. CLVI.
An Act to impose a Tax on all Banks or Branches thereof in the State
of Maryland not chartered by the Legislature.
Lib. TH. No. 6,
fol. 88. |
Tax on branch,
established in the
state without its
authority.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
if any bank has established, or shall without authority from the
state first had and obtained, establish any branch, office of discount
and deposit, or office of pay and receipt, in any part of this state,
it shall not be lawful for the said branch, office of discount and deposit,
or office of pay and receipt, to issue notes in any manner, of
any other denomination than five, ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred,
five hundred and one thousand dollars, and no note shall be issued
except upon stamp paper of the following denominations; that is to
say, every five dollar note shall be upon a stamp of ten cents; every
ten dollar note upon a stamp of twenty cents; every twenty dollar
note upon a stamp of thirty cents; every fifty dollar note upon
a stamp of fifty cents; every one hundred dollar note upon
a stamp of one dollar; every five hundred dollar note upon a stamp
of ten dollars; and every thousand dollar note upon a stamp of
twenty dollars; which paper shall be furnished by the treasurer of
the western shore, under the direction of the governor and council,
to be paid for upon delivery; Provided always, that any institution
of the above description may relieve itself from the operation of the
provisions aforesaid, by paying annually, in advance, to the treasurer
of the western shore, for the use of the state, the sum of fifteen
thousand dollars. |
Penalty on offices
offending, &c. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president,
cashier, each of
the directors and officers of every institution established, or to be established
as aforesaid, offending against the provisions aforesaid,
shall forfeit a sum of five hundred dollars for each and every offence;
and every person having any agency in circulating any note |
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