THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835,

Chancellor, and plats returned therewith, as the se-

cond and fourth divisions of the first part of Western

CHAP. 142

Connection, and the second division of the second part

of the same, containing as appears by said report and

plats, the quantity of eight thousand eight hundred and

eight acres, and five eighths of an acre.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That upon the return of

Patent to issue

the certificates of the said resurvey, and after the

same shall have remained the usual time in the Land

Office, it shall be the duty of the said Register to issue

a patent upon the same, to the said president, direct-

ors and company of the Bank of the United States, if

no caveat shall be fried during the period; and in case

If caveat filed

a caveat shall be filed, the same shall be heard and de-

Chancellor to de-

cided in the usual manner by the Chancellor, and in

cide

that case a patent shall issue, or not, according as the

Chancellor may decide upon such caveat, but in nei-

ther case, shall the said president, directors and com-

pany of the Bank of the United States, be required to

pay or shew that the composition money on said land

has been paid.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That for the services

Compensation

hereby required to be performed by the said Register,

he shall be entitled to the compensation allowed by

law in similar cases.

CHAPTER 142.

Are act relating to certain Banks in the City of Baltimore.

Passed May. 5,1834

WHEREAS, by the eleventh section of an act of As-

Preamble

sembly, passed at December session, of the year eigh-

teen hundred and twenty-one, chapter one hundred and

thirty-one, the faith of the State was pledged to certain

Banks in the city of Baltimore, upon certain terms

and conditions therein specified, not to impose any

further tax or burthen upon them during the continu-

ance of their charters under that act, AND WHEREAS,

it is equitable that the Banks subsequently chartered

by the State of Maryland, should stand on equal foot-

ing with those Banks, — Therefore,