| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
aforesaid, not stamped as aforesaid directed, shall forfeit a sum
not exceeding one hundred dollars; every penalty aforesaid to be
recovered by indictment, or action of debt, in the county court of
the county where the offence shall be committed, one half to the
informer, and the other half to the use of the state. |
1817.
CHAP. 156. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
be in full force and
effect from and after the first day of May next.
This act, so far as it imposes a tax,
&c. on the Bank of the United States, or
the Branches thereof, was declared by the Supreme Court of the United States,
at February Term 1819, in the case of James W. McCulloh against the state
of
Maryland, and John James, who as well &c. to be contrary to the constitution
of
the United states, and void. See Mandate or the Supreme Court of
the United
States entered in Lib. TH. No. 18, fol. 246, &c. one of the judgment
records of
the court of appeals for the western shore. See also 4 Wheaton,
316. |
Commencement. |
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CHAP. CLVII.
A Supplement to an act*, entitled, An act to incorporate a Company
under the name of The Nottingham Library Company. Lib.
TH.
No. 6, fol. 89. |
Passed Feb. 11, 1818.
* 1815, ch. 144. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
as soon as fifty shares of the capital stock of the said company
shall be subscribed for, the commissioners named in the original
act, or a majority of them, shall give notice thereof, by advertising
according to the provisions of the original act, and appoint a day
for the election of five managers and directors, which managers
and directors shall be elected according to the provisions of the
original act, in the same manner as if the whole capital stock of
the said company had been subscribed for. |
Election of managers
and directors. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the fifty shares
subscribed for
previous to the election of the managers and directors, shall be
paid for according to the provisions of the original act. |
Shares to be paid
for before election. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the managers and
directors shall
be and are hereby authorised, to receive subscriptions for shares of
stock in the said company, at five dollars each, until the capital
stock of the said company shall amount to two hundred shares, each
share to be paid for in the following manner; that is to say, one
half at the time of subscribing, the other half in three months
thereafter. |
Subscriptions authorised
to be received. |
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CHAP. CLVIII.
An Act for the establishment of a Market for the Sale of Live Stock
at the Rising Sun, in Cecil County. Lib. TH.
No. 6, fol. 90. |
Passed Feb. 11, 1818. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Job Haines, Daniel Job, of Daniel, Benjamin Reynolds, James Janney,
Henry Broughton, Thomas White, Francis Gellespie, James
Eagan, Allen Kirk and Harlan Jones, or a majority of them, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners, with full power and
authority, that from and after the first day of March next they are
hereby authorised and empowered, to hold a market at the said
place, on the first Thursday in June, August, September, October,
November, January and March, in each and every year, at the
said place, for the sale of live stock of every kind. |
Commissioners appointed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a
majority of them, shall have full power to appoint a clerk and crier
if the sid market, and from time to time to make rules and ordinances,
and by-laws, for the ordering and governing the said market, |
To appoint a
clerk and crier. |
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