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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or other evidences of indebtedness in accordance with banking

usage, and to buy or discount bills of exchange, notes, bonds

and other negotiable instruments.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the said bank shall have

Confirming

the power to sell at any time any mortgage, bond, stock, note

conveyances
of land.

or other commercial paper or security for the loan of money

owned by it ; and all conveyances of land heretofore made by or

to the said bank are hereby ratified and confirmed.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted. That whenever any deposits

Equal with

shall be made in the said bank by a minor or married woman

male deposi-
tors.

such deposit shall be received, held and paid out on precisely

the same terms and conditions as those of adult male deposi-

tors, and the check, receipt or acquittance of such minor

or married woman shall be valid and binding, any law of

the State of Maryland to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

on the first day of April, A.D. 1904.

Approved April i, 1904.

CHAPTER 181.

AN ACT to refund to certain collectors of State taxes herein

mentioned moneys erroneously paid by them into the State

Treasury.

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

To refund

land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is hereby

to collector

authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer

of State taxes
money erro-

of this State in favor of the following collectors of State taxes

neously paid
by them into

for moneys erroneously paid by them into the State Treasury,

the State
Treasury.

the same having received the recommendation of the Treas-

ury officials, viz: C. M. McCulloh, collector second district,

Allegany County, for year 1898, nine dollars and twenty-

five cents; B. R. Davidson, collector Anne Arundel County for

year 1897, twenty-two dollars and eighty-one cents, and for

year 1808, twenty-five dollars and thirty-seven cents; W. H.

Dowell, collector Calvert County for years 1900-I, fifteen dol-

lars and seventy-six cents; Joseph j. Bradenburg, collector

fifth district, Carroll County, for year 1901, forty-two dollars

and fifty cents ; John C. Buckey, collector eleventh district,

Carroll county, for year 1902, thirty-one dollars and forty-

one cents ; John R. Ryce, collector second district, Charles

County, for year 1901, ten dollars and sixty-four cents; George