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EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
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the act with intent thereby to injure or defraud, it shall be
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Proof.
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sufficient to allege that the person or persons accused com-
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mitted the act with intent to injure or defraud, without alleging
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an intent to injure or defraud any particular person; and upon
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the trial of any person for the offense of arson or burning no
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higher or more conclusive proof shall be required than is re-
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quired at the trial of other criminal cases.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That nothing in this Act shall
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affect crimes committed prior to the first clay of June, A. D.
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1904.
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Approved April 12, 1904.
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CHAPTER 268.
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AN ACT to amend the charter of "The Fidelity Savings Bank
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of Frostburg, Allegany County," so as to authorize said bank
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to engage in and conduct a general banking business.
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WHEREAS, The Fidelity Savings Bank of Frostburg, Alle-
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gany County, Maryland, was duly incorporated under the Gen-
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Fidelity Sav-
ings Bank of
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eral Laws of Maryland authorizing the formation of savings in-
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Frostburg,
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stitutions, for the purpose of conducting a savings bank in the
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Md.
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City of Frostburg, with a capital stock of twenty-five thousand
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dollars, divided into twenty-five hundred shares, according to
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the certificate of incorporation, approved April 16, 1902, and
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duly recorded in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court for Al-
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legany County, in Liber J. W. Y., No. 4, folio 21 ; and,
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WHEREAS, The said bank is now, and has been ever since,
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conducting a savings bank in said city ; and,
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WHEREAS, It is the wish of the directors and stockholders of
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said bank that its corporate powers be increased and enlarged
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Increase of
corporate
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and its charter be amended so as to enable said bank to engage
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powers.
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in, carry on and conduct in said city a general banking busi-
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ness; now, therefore,
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the said Fidelity Savings Bank of Frostburg, Alle-
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Empowered to
do a general
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gany County, Maryland, be and it is hereby authorized and
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banking
business.
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empowered to borrow money, receive money on deposit, and
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pay interest thereon, and to loan money or to discount in ac-
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cordance with bank usage, taking such security therefor, either
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real or personal, as the board of directors of said bank may
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deem sufficient; to buy and sell bills of exchange, notes, bonds
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