JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. ' 717

ine the books, papers and accounts of the corporation,
or may apply to the president and directors to call a
general meeting for any purpose relative to the cor- poration; and if the president and directors shall	Refuse to call
refuse to call such meeting, the said number of	meeting.
stockholders, owners of not less than the aforesaid
amounts of stock, shall have the power to call a
general meeting of the stockholders, giving notice
as aforesaid, and specifying in such notice the object
of the meeting ; and it is hereby made the duty of
the president and directors, upon the application of
ten stockholders for that purpose, to give such
stockholders a full list of all the stockholders in said
bank.
ARTICLE 12. Before he enters upon the duties of ,	Give bond
his office, the cashier shall be required to give bond
with one or more securities to the satisfaction of the
president and directors, in a sum of not less than
twenty thousand dollars, with a condition for the
faithful discharge of his duties.
ARTICLE 13. The lands, tenements and heredita-
ments which it shall be lawful for said corporation	Lands, tene- ments, &c
to hold, shall be such as shall be requisite for its
accommodation, in relation to the transaction of
business, and such as shall have been bona fide mort-
gaged, or conveyed to it by way of security, or in
satisfaction of debts contracted in course of its deal-
ings, or purchased at sales upon judgments which
have been obtained for such debts.
ARTICLE 14. That this corporation shall not deal
or trade in any thing except bills of exchange,	Shall not deal in
promissory notes, bonds, mortgages and bullion, or
in the produce of their lands, or of such goods and
effects as shall have been bona fide pledged or mort-
gaged by way of security, or conveyed to it in satis-
faction of debts contracted in the course of its
dealings, or purchased at sales upon judgments
which shall have been obtained for such debts ; pro-	Proviso.
vided, that nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to prevent the said corporation from making
investments of its funds in the purchase of bonds
and stocks of the United States, or of any one of the
United States, or of the City of Baltimore, or other
bonds and stocks as the president and directors may
for the time consider safe and beneficial.