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In force.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the date of its approval.

Approved March 23, 1876.

CHAPTER 116.

AN ACT supplement to an act passed at January session eighteen hundred and fifty-two, entitled "An act to incorporate the Santa Clara Mining Association of Baltimore, " authorizing said association to make and enforce payment of all calls or assessments upon its capital stock, heretofore made or hereafter to be made.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it hath been represented to the General Assembly of Maryland that it hath been heretofore necessary for the Santa Clara Mining Association of Baltimore to call upon the stockholders for the purpose of obtaining the means necessary to free it from debts, and that other calls or assessment may become necessary in the further prosecution of the purpose and business for which said association was chartered and organized, therefore,

Authorized to make addit'n-al assessments

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the President and Board of Directors of the Santa Clara Mining Association of Baltimore be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make calls or assessments additional to any heretofore made upon the capital stock to an amount not exceeding the sum of three dollars per share, over and above all previous calls or assessments, and to provide for the time and manner in which the same and any heretofore made shall be payable, and any call or assessment heretofore made, is hereby validated:

Shall be liens.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any calls or assessments heretofore made or hereafter to be made, shall be and continue liens upon the shares respectively on which they shall be payable until