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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
stock actually paid into the bank; Provided, that the money deposited
in the said bank for safe keeping shall not be considered as the
debts of the bank within the provision of this clause, unless the
contracting of any greater debt shall have been previously authorised
by a law of this state. |
1807.
CHAP. 26.
Proviso. |
19th. All bills and notes which may be issued
by order of the
said corporation, signed by the president, and countersigned by the
cashier thereof, promising the payment of money to any person or
persons, his, her or their order, or to bearer, though not under
seal of the said corporation, shall be binding and obligatory upon
the same in like manner, and with the like force and effect, as upon
any private person or persons, if issued by him or them in his or
their private capacity or capacities, and shall be assignable and
negotiable in like manner as if they were so issued by such private
person or persons; that is to say, those which shall be payable to
any person or persons, his, her or their order, shall be assignable
by endorsement, in like manner, and with like effect, as foreign
bills of exchange now are, and those which are payable to bearer,
shall be negotiable or assignable by delivery only. |
Bills, &c. issued
by order of corporation,
signed, &c.
to be binding upon
them, &c. |
20th. The treasurer of the western shore for
the time being shall
be furnished once every year, or oftener if required, with statements
of the amount of the capital stock of the said corporation,
and of the debts due to and from the same, of the amount of monies
deposited therein, of the notes in circulation, of the cash in hand,
and of the profits made, and shall have a right to inspect such general
accounts in the books of the bank as shall relate to the said
statements, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to imply
a right of inspecting the account of any private individual with
the bank, nor shall such general statement and power of inspection
be used for any other purpose but to enable him to form a just
opinion of the state of the institution relative to the public safety,
and of the profits thereof, over which he is hereby appointed guardian,
as far as the same relates to the state. |
Treasurer of W.
S. to be furnished
annually with
statements of the
amount of capital
stock, &c. |
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
continue in force
until the expiration of the year eighteen hundred and fifteen, and
until the end of the next session of assembly thereafter.
Further continued and extended by
1815, ch. 167, to 1st January 1835, &c. |
Duration. |
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CHAP. XXVII.
An Act for the benefit of Margaretta Chalmers. Lib. TH.
No. 1, fol.
329. A Private Act.
A Supplement, ch. 121.
The interest of the state in and to the real and personal
property of James
Chalmers, transferred to her and her heirs. |
Passed Jan, 15, 1808. |
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CHAP. XXVIII.
A Further Supplement to the Act, (a) entitled, An act to
regulate
Elections. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 330.
(a) 1799, ch. 50. See 1805, ch. 97. |
Passed Jan. 15, 1808. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Barton Tabbs, Edward Mattingly, William Hebb, James Hopewell,
Matthias Clarke, Joseph Ford, senior, and Charles Chilton, be
and they are hereby appointed and authorised, or a majority of
them, or a majority of the survivors of them, commissioners to lay
off Saint-Mary's county into four separate electional districts, in conformity |
Saint-Mary's
county to be laid
off into four separate
election districts. |
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