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CHAP. 341.
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stockholders, for any purpose relative to the institu-
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tion, giving at least four weeks' notice, in all the news-
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papers in the city or county of Frederick; and any
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number of stockholders not less than fifty, who to-
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gether shall be proprietors of two thousand shares, may
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at any time apply to the said president and directors
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to call a general meeting of the stockholders, for any
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purpose relative to the institution, and if the president
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and directors shall refuse to call such meeting, the said
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Stockholders may call
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number of stockholders, proprietors of not less than
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the aforesaid number of shares, shall have power to
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call a general meeting of the stockholders, giving at
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least sixty days' previous notice as aforesaid, and spe-
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cifying in such notice, the object of such meeting, and
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Duty of pres and
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it is hereby made the duty of the president and direct-
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directors to give a list
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ors of said bank, at all times upon the application of
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not less than twenty stockholders, being holders of not
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less than one thousand shares, to give such stockhold-
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ers a full Jist of the names of all the stockholders in
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said bank.
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ART. 12. Every cashier or treasurer, before he en-
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ters upon the duties of his office, shall be required to
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give bond, with two or more surities to the satisfaction
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of the president and directors, in a sum not less than
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fifty thousand dollars, with a condition for his good
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behaviour, and every clerk, officer or servant of the
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bank, shall give bond in such penalty and with such
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security as the president and directors shall prescribe,
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with condition for his good behaviour.
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ART. 13. That the corporation shall not deal or
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trade in any thing except bills of exchange, promissory
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notes and bullion, or in the sale of goods which shall
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be the produce of their lands, or of such goods and ef-
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fects as shall have been bona fide pledged or mortga-
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ged to it by way of security, or conveyed to it in satis-
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faction of debts contracted in the course of its dealings
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or purchased at sales upon judgments, which shall have
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been obtained for such debts; provided however, that
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nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent
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the said corporation from making temporary invest-
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ments of its funds, in purchase of the public debt of
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the United States or any one of the United States, as
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