1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 307.

the stockholders at a general meeting which they shall have power to call for that purpose.

Reservation of power to tax

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act

contained shall he construed to restrict the right of

the Legislature to impose and levy from time to time,

and at all times hereafter such tax as the General As-

sembly shall deem proper by license or otherwise, on

the estate, funds, and property in which the capital

stock of said company hereby incorporated, shall be

invested in common with similar property, funds or

estate of any other company, corporation or individu-

al of this State.

In force till 1866

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall con-

tinue in force until the year eighteen hundred and six-

ty-six, and until the cud of the next .session of the Gen-

eral Assembly as may happen thereafter.

CHAPTER 307.

Passed April 2,1836

An act relating to pensions ly county assessment.

Preamble

WHEREAS, much of the time of the Legislature is

occupied in considering applications from indigent per-

sons in the several counties in this State, and in the

passage of laws for their relief, which might be saved

by vesting in the several levy courts or boards of com-

missioners, as the case may be, in the several counties,

full power to receive such applications and grant the

necessary and appropriate relief: — Therefore,

Power of levy court

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

or commissioners

Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act

the levy courts or county commissioners, as the case may

he, of the several counties in this State, shall have full

To grant to indi-

power and authority to receive, and in their discretion

gent persons

to grant or reject applications from indigent and dis-

tressed persons, within their several counties, for pen-

sions, and the several sums of money by them so allow-

ed to be made payable to the persons so applying, or

to some other person for the use of the individual so

To be leved

applying, and the same to be levied at their annual

county levies on the assessable property of their re-