THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

creditors of said corporation, and may be prosecuted to judgment and execution, any condition, covenant or

CHAP. 41

agreement to the contrary notwithstanding; but nothing

herein contained shall be construed to exempt the said

corporation, or the lands, tenements, goods, chattels

and estate of the same, from being also liable for and

chargeable with, the said excess; Provided always, that

such of said Directors who may have been absent when

the said excess was created, or who may have dissent-

ed from the resolution or act whereby the same was

created, may respectively exonerate themselves from

Method of exon-crating

being so liable, by forthwith giving notice of the fact,

and of their absence or dissent, to the Governor of the

State, and to the stockholders at a general meeting,

which they shall have power to call for that purpose.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That nothing herein

Banking forbid

contained, shall be so construed as to confer banking

privileges on said corporation, nor the right to issue

any bill or note in the form or style of a bank note.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act

Right to tax re-served

contained, shall be construed to restrain the Legisla-

ture from imposing or levying such reasonable tax, by

license or otherwise, upon all vessels, property, estates

and funds, in which the capital stock of said company

shall be invested, in common with similar vessels, pro-

perty, estate and funds, of any other corporation or in-

dividual of this State; and that this act shall be in force

until the expiration of the year eighteen hundred and

Limit 1860

sixty, and thereafter until repealed, or modified as it

may then be, at the pleasure of the, Legislature.

CHAPTER 41.

An act to authorise and empower the Levy Court, of

Passed Feb. 9,1838

Frederick county, to cause an alphabetical record en-

try to be made of all the original land certificates, in

said county, in the Surveyor's office.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Levy court au-thorised to have

Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act

record made

it shall and may be lawful for the Levy Court, of

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