THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

ART. 11. That the president and directors of this

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bank, may at any time call a general meeting of its

Meeting of stock-

stockholders, for any purpose relative to the institu-

holders

tion, giving at least four weeks' notice in two or more

daily newspapers in the city of Baltimore; and any

number of stockholders not less than fifty, who toge-

ther shall be proprietors of five thousand shares, may

at any time apply to the said president and directors

to call a general meeting of the stockholders, for any

General meetings

purpose relative to the institution, and if the president

and directors shall refuse to call such meeting, the said

number 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

Notice

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

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

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. 12. Every cashier or treasurer, before he

Bonds

enters upon the duties of his office, shall he required to

give bond with two or more sureties to the satisfaction

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

than fifty thousand dollars, with a condition for his

good behaviour, and every clerk, officerr or servant of

the bank shall give bond in such penalty and with such

security as the president and directors shall prescribe,

with condition for his good behaviour.

AnT. 13. That the corporation shall not deal or

Kind of business

trade in anything 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 bona fide, 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 be construed to prevent

the said corporation from making temporary invest-