| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CLXXVI.
A Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act for incorporating a Company
for erecting a Bridge over Nanticoke River at or near
Vienna,
in Dorchester County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol.
390. |
1818.
CHAP. 176.
Passed Feb. 15, 1819.
* 1817, ch. 224. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the time for procuring and opening the books of subscription for
shares in said company, be and the same is hereby extended to the
first day of January eighteen hundred and twenty, and that Charles
Venables and William Russum, or Somerset county, and Doctor
Clement Stanford of Dorchester county, are hereby appointed commissioners,
in addition to those appointed by the act to which this
is a supplement, to carry said law into effect. |
Time for opening
subscriptions extended. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That from and after
the passage of this
act, the proviso in the tenth section of the act to which this is a
supplement, authorising the levy courts of Dorchester and Somerset
counties to levy and assess the sum of two hundred dollars on
each of the said counties, to be paid to the president and directors
of said company, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that the
president and directors of said company be authorised to demand
and receive from the people of said counties, the same tolls which
they are authorised to demand of persons not residents of said
counties. |
Proviso in tenth
section of former
law repealed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in lieu of the
tolls authorised by
the act to which this is a supplement, to be collected from foot passengers
crossing said bridge, they shall not be authorised to demand
or receive a greater sum than three cents from each foot
passenger. |
Not to demand
more than 3 cents
for each foot passenger. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That one-third part
ofd the capital stock
of said company be reserved for the use of the state, to be subscribed
for by the treasurer of the eastern shore, and paid out of
any unappropriated money in the treasury, whenever the remaining
two-thirds shall have been subscribed. |
One-third of the
capital to be reserved
for the use
of the state. |
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CHAP. CLXXVII.
An Act to facilitate the recovery of Debts due from the several
Banks
in this State, and to compel the said Banks to pay Specie
for their
Notes, or forfeit their Charters. Lib.
TH. No. 6, fol. 391. |
Passed Feb. 15, 1819. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
any person having a claim upon or holding a note of any bank in
this state, under fifty dollars, after demand of payment of such
claim or note at the bank, and refusal or neglect to pay, may recover
judgment for the same before a justice of the peace of the
county where the bank is established. |
Bank refusing
payment of note,
the same may be
recovered before a
justice of peace. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the proceedings
under the above
provision shall be a summons to be served by the proper officer on
the president or cashier of the bank, or to be left at the banking
house, during the usual banking hours; and in all other respects
shall be according to the provisions of an act†, entitled, An act for
the speedy recovery of small debts out of court, and to repeal the
acts of assembly therein mentioned, and the supplements thereto. |
Proceedings in
such case.
† 1791, ch. 68. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any bank neglecting
or refusing
to pay its debts, shall pay an interest at the rate of six per centum
per annum, to commence from the time of demand of payment of
the particular debt, and neglect or refusal to pay. |
Bank neglecting
to pay its debt to
pay an interest of
six per cent. |
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