THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

bank, at all times upon the application of not less than	CHAP. 289
twenty stockholders, being holders of not less than
two thousand shares, to give such stockholders a full
list of the names of all the stockholders in said bank.
ART. 13. Every cashier or treasurer, before he	Bonds
enters upon the duties of his office, shall be required to
give bond with two or more securities to the satisfaction
of the president and directors, in a sum not less than
fifty thousand dollars, with a condition for his good
behaviour.
ART. 14. The lands, tenements and hereditaments,	Limit as to lands
which it shall be lawful for the said corporation to
hold,.shall be only such as shall be requisite for its im-
mediate accommodation, in relation to the convenient
transacting of its business, and such as shall have been
bona fide, mortgaged or conveyed to it, by way of secu-
rity or in satisfaction of debts contracted in the course of
its dealings, or purchased at sales upon judgments which
shall have been obtained for such debts; and all such
lands, tenements and hereditaments so taken in satis-
faction of debts, or purchased at sales upon judgments,
shall be resold and conveyed by the said president and
directors within the term of five years from the taking
or purchase thereof as aforesaid.
ART. 15. That the corporation shall not deal or	Kind of business
trade in any thing except bills of exchange, promissory
notes, and bullion, or in the sale of goods, which shall
be the produce of their lands, or of such goods and ef-
fects as shall have been bonafide, pledged or mortgaged
to it by way of security, or conveyed to it in satisfac-
tion of debts contracted in the course of its dealings, or
purchased at sales upon judgments which shall have
been obtained for such debts; Provided however, that	Proviso
nothing herein contained shall he construed to prevent
the said corporation from making temporary invest-
ments of its funds, in purchase of the public debt of
the United States, or any one of the United States, or
of the city of Baltimore, as the president and directors
for the time being, may deem safe and beneficial; nor
from making investments of any part of its funds, not
exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, in the stock
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