1835.

LAWS OP MARYLAND.

Baltimore; and any number of stockholders not less

CHAP. 315.

than fifty, who together shall he proprietors of one-

General meetings

sixth part of the whole capital stock, may at any time

apply to the said president and directors to call a ge-

neral meeting of the stockholders, for any purpose re-

lative to the institution, and if the president and di-

rectors shall refuse to call such meeting, the said num-

ber of stockholders, proprietors of not less than the

aforesaid number of shares, shall have power to call a

general meeting of the stockholders, giving at least

sixty days previous notice in two or more daily news-

papers, in the city of Baltimore, and specifying in such

notice the object of such meeting; and it is hereby

made the duty of the president and directors of said

hank, at all times, upon the application of not less than

twenty stockholders, being holders of not less than

one-fifteenth of the capital stock, [ ] a full list of the

names of all the stockholders in said bank.

To bond

ART. 13. Every cashier or treasurer, before he en-

ters upon the duties of his office, shall be required to

give bond, with two or more sureties to the satisfaction

of the president and directors, in a sum not less than

fifty thousand dollars, with a condition of his good be-

haviour.

Lands

ART. 14. The lands, tenements and hereditaments,

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

transaction 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 sa-

tisfaction of debts or purchased at sales upon judgments,

shall be re-sold and conveyed by the said president

and directors within the term of five years from the

taking or purchase thereof as aforesaid.

Kind of business

ART. 15. That the corporation shall not deal or

trade in any thing but 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-