EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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and the check, receipt or acquittance of such minor or mar-

ried woman shall be valid and binding on them, any law of this

State to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the said Farmers and Mer-

chants' Bank of Chestertown, Maryland, is authorized to re-

General au-

ceive deposits of money, checks and commercial paper from

thority.

any individual or administrator, committee, guardian, receiver,

assignee, trustee or any public officer of Kent County or else-

where, or from any person or persons acting for others having

the custody of any moneys belonging to themselves or others,

any local law to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That any and all laws of this

Prior laws in-

State inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be and the

consistent
with this are

same are hereby repealed so far as they apply to the Farmers

repealed.

and Merchants' Bank of Chestertown, Maryland, named in

this Act.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 665.

AN ACT to provide for the further extension of the charter

and corporate existence of the Woodsboro and Frederick

Turnpike Road Company, and to repeal Sections 7, 10, 13

and 18 of Chapter 304 of the Acts of the General Assembly

of Maryland, Session of 1853, entitled "An Act to incor-

porate a company to build a turnpike road from Woods-

boro to Monocacy bridge, on the road leading to Frederick

City," and to re-enact said Sections 7, 10, 13 and 18 of

said Chapter 304 of the Acts of the Session of 1853, with

amendments.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the charter and corporate existence of the Woods-

Woodsboro

boro and Frederick Turnpike Road Company, which was in-

and Frederick

corporated by the General Assembly of Maryland, by Chap-

Turnpike
Road

ter 304, passed at the January Session in the year .1853, on the

Company.

date May 27, in said year 1853, be and the same is hereby ex-

tended and continued in force, with all its rights, powers,

privileges and immunities, the same as contained in said char-

ter, except as hereinafter changed and amended by this Act,

for a further period of time from the date May 27, in the

year 1903, until the date May 27, in the year 1953.