1833.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 241.

the lapse oi fifteen years, or by disposing of said five per
cent, stock as he shall deem best, and paying to said com-
pany out of the proceeds thereof the par of said subscrip-
tion.

Further condition-
al subscriptions

Sec. 2. And be it also enacted, That so soon as the govern-
ment of the United States shall extend additional aid to
the amount of one million of dollars to said company, the
said Treasurer shall be and he is hereby authorised and
directed to subscribe, in the name and on the behalf of this
state, for the further number of twelve hundred and fifty
shares of said capital stock, and to pay for these shares
in like manner.

CHAPTER 240.

Passed Mar. 14,1834

An act to discharge Samuel Pierpont from the payment of
of the costs of prosecution in certain cases.

Discharged

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Samuel Pierpont be and he is hereby discharged and ex-
onerated from the payment of all costs of prosecution that
may have heretofore accrued in any case, at the suit of the
State of Maryland, against him, and for which he is at pre-
sent responsible.

CHAPTER 241.

Passed Mar.14,1834

An act for the benefit of James Stewart, of Baltimore county

Allowance anthori-
sed

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the commissioners for Baltimore county be
and they are hereby authorised to make an allowance to
James Stewart, for any excess of county taxes or levy which
may have been paid from the year seventeen hundred and
ninety-eight, until the present time, on certain tracts of land
situated in Patapsco Neck, in said county, and assessed
during that period to the said James Stewart, or to Richard
S. Stewart, being the same tracts, which by the last will and
testament of Richard Sprigg, late of Anne Arundel county,
(who died in seventeen hundred and ninety-eight,) were
devised to Rebecca, the wife of said James Stewart, and