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CHAP. 186.
Penalty for transacting
business
under this act if
charter is forfeited. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
28. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the acts which
are declared
a forfeiture of the charter of said bank, shall have happened, it
shall not be lawful for the president and directors of said bank, or
either of them, or any other person in their name, or as their agent
or servant, to do or transact any act or business whatever under
or in virtue of this act, (except such as are provided for in the preceding
section) under the penalty of one thousand dollars for every
such unauthorised act, to be recovered in the name of the state as
other fines of like amount. |
No officer to be
concerned in purchasing
notes, &c. |
29. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the president,
or any director,
the cashier or any other officer of the said bank, shall be concerned,
directly or indirectly, in purchasing any note or notes, bill
or bills, at more than lawful discount or interest, and information
thereof be given and supported to the satisfaction of a majority of
the board or quorum of directors, his or their seat or seats of office
shall be vacated, and the directors shall fill up such vacancy or vacancies. |
Act to be in force
until 1835. |
30. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
continue in force
until the expiration of the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five,
and to the end of the next session of assembly thereafter. |
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Passed Feb. 15, 1819. |
CHAP. CXXXVII.
An Act for the relief of Peregrine Wilmer. Lib. TH. No.
6, fol.
407. A Private Act.
A deed authorised to be executed to
him by John Watson, (commissioner,) for
all the right which descended from John R. Pratt to his heirs at law, for
the lands
contained in the commission issued from Queen-Anne's county court, and
the
return thereof, for a division of the said lands. |
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Passed Feb. 17, 1819. |
CHAP. CLXXXVIII.
A Further Supplement to the act(a), entitled, An act to establish
Pilots
and regulate their Fees. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 407.
(a) 1803, ch. 63. See 1815, ch. 177. |
Board of examiners
authorised to
charge 50 per
cent in addition to
the fees now allowed. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the board of examiners, and their register, appointed by or in virtue
of the act to which this is a supplement, be and they are hereby
authorised, severally to charge and receive fifty per centum on
the amount and addition to the fees to which they are now entitled
by law, upon cases disputed before them. |
Penalty on pilots
receiving greater
or less fees than
allowed by law. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
lawful for any pilot
or pilots to charge or receive greater or lesser fees than allowed by
law for any services rendered under the act to which this is a supplement,
and the several supplements thereto, under the penalty of
fifty dollars for each and every offence, to be recovered in the name
of the state, for the use of the informer, before a justice of the
peace, as small debts are recoverable. |
Warrant granted
to pilots to be void
upon their removal
out of the state. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the warrant or
license of any pilot
to act as such, granted to him by the said board, or which hereafter
may be granted to him, upon his removal out of the state, shall
become null and void, the evidence whereof shall be the public declaration
of said board to that effect, published in two or more of
the newspapers printed in the city of Baltimore. |
No person entitled
to a warrant unless
he has served
three years in the
business. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no person shall
be entitled to a
warrant or license as a pilot unless he shall satisfy the said board
that he has served or been employed at least three years in the business
of piloting in the Chesapeake bay. |
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