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general meeting assembled, of the banking institu-	Determine to
tion incorporated under this act, shall at any time	close.
determine to close its banking operations, thence-
forth it shall not be lawful for such corporation to
resume the exercise of its banking powers and fran-
chises, but the same shall be closed ; and after the
payment of its debts and liabilities, the remaining
assets and property of said corporation shall be divi- ded amongst the stockholders or their assigns.
SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 476.
AN ACT regulating fences in Garrett county.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all fields and other grounds kept for	Shall be fenced
enclosure in Garrett county, shall be fenced with
post and rail, or plank, or worm fences, made of
good and substantial rails at least four feet high
from the ground to the top of the upper rail, and all
worm fences, not staked and ridered, shall be at least
four and one-half feet high from the ground to the
top of the upper rail ; and the first or under rail, in	Height
post and rail, or plank, or worm fences, shall not ex-
ceed five inches from the ground or embankment on
which the same is or may be built, and the width
between the rails or planks comprising the fence,
shall be such as is usual in the construction of good
post and rail, plank or worm fences; and all brush
fences, made upon the surface of the ground, to be	Brush fences
at least four feet high ; and all brush fences upon an
embankment to be at least three feet high ; provided
the embankment be eighteen inches high ; and pro-
vided that nothing contained in this act shall be so	Proviso.
construed as to extend to other than outside fence
or fences between proprietors; and if any livestock
of any kind or description whatever, shall break into
any person's enclosure, the same being of the height
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