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or assessments, the sum of three dollars per share,
and to provide for the times and manner in which
the same and any heretofore made shall be payable,
notwithstanding that times and manner or either may
have been heretofore provided in reference to the pay-
ment of said assessments, or any of them, and any
calls or assessments heretofore made is hereby vali-
dated.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any calls or	License on shares
assessment made or to be made, shall be and con-
tinue liens upon the shares respectively on which
they shall be payable until fully paid, and if any
stockholder or stockholders shall fail to pay any call
or assessment, instalment or part thereof, within the
period of sixty days after the time when the same
shall be payable, and if demand shall have been
made on such stockholder or stockholders, or notice
in writing or printed of the time of payment, to be
fixed as aforesaid, shall have been addressed to such
stockholder or stockholders at his, her, its or their
usual abode or place of business, at least one week
prior to the time when such assessment, instalment
or part thereof shall be payable, then the shares of
the capital stock upon which payment shall not have
been made shall be forfeited to the association, and	Forfeited.
may be sold by or under the directions of the said
President and Directors, at public auction or at the
board of brokers, provided such stockholder or stock-
holders shall have been first personally or by notice
addressed to him, her, it or them as aforesaid, at the
usual place of business, or abode of such stockholder
or stockholders, of the time and place where the
stock shall be sold; and upon such sale the proceeds
shall be applied first to pay all expenses of sale, and
any calls or assessments upon such shares, and the
remainder shall be paid to the stockholder or stock-
holders.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That at any sale of such
stock as aforesaid, the Santa Clara Mining Associa-	Sale
tion of Baltimore, shall be at liberty to purchase the
same.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect as soon as it shall have been accepted by the	In force.
holders of a majority of the capital stock in said as-