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amount, and the court before whom the recovery shall be had shall
treble the said damages and give judgment therefor with costs. |
1818.
CHAP. 177. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
to be appointed
under this act, may recover any debt due to the bank, in a
suit to be instituted, in the corporate name or style of the institution. |
Commissioners
may recover debts
due the bank. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That a commission,
at the discretion
of the court, not exceeding five per cent. shall be allowed
such
commissioners. |
Their commission. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
not take effect,
and be in force, until after the first day of January next, in relation
to any bank which regularly paid specie for its notes from the first
day of May last to the first day of October last. |
Act not to take
effect until first of
January next in
relation to certain
banks. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in payment of
any debt due to,
or judgment obtained by, a bank or banks in this state, or by the
commissioners which may be appointed under the provisions of
this act, the note or notes of the bank to whom the debt is due, or
by or for whom the judgment has been obtained, shall be received
in payment at the full value contained in the promise made by said
note or notes. |
In payment of
debt due the bank
the notes thereof
to be received. |
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CHAP. CLXXVIII.
An Act to confirm the Proceedings of the Orphans Court in Allegany
County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 394. |
Passed Feb. 15, 1819. |
WHEREAS John Scott was duly commissioned a justice
of the
orphans court of Allegany county, and qualified, and acted as such
during the year eighteen hundred and seventeen: And whereas the
said John Scott, being under the impression that he was continued
in the commission as one of the justices of the said court, acted as
such during a part of the year eighteen hundred and eighteen;
therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
all and singular the proceedings had and done in the said court,
during the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, in the transaction
of which the said John Scott acted as one of the justices of said
court, be and the same are hereby confirmed, and shall be as valid,
and shall have the same effect and operation in law, as if the said
John Scott had been duly commissioned and qualified as a justice
of the said orphans court, according to the laws of the state of
Maryland. |
Certain proceedings
confirmed. |
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CHAP. CLXXIX.
An act Supplementary to the act* to regulate Lotteries. Lib.
TH.
No. 6, fol. 394. |
Passed Feb. 16, 1819.
* 1817, ch. 154. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
if the managers of any lottery now authorised by law, shall not,
on or before the first day of March eighteen hundred and twenty,
signify to the commissioners, in writing, their wishes to have the
said lottery drawn, and their determination to propose a scheme
for that purpose, whenever their right to draw shall come in rotation,
the right of said managers to draw said lottery shall be wholly
forfeited. |
Managers who do
not signify their
wishes to have lottery
drawn, to forfeit
their right. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the managers of
any lottery
which may hereafter be drawn in this state, be and they are hereby
authorised and required, to pay to the treasurer of the western |
No lottery to be
drawn unless the
treasurer's receipt
for the five per
cent. be presented. |
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