1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAT. 380.

person shall not have held at least two months before

the election or the meeting of business at which his

note may be offered, nor shall any vote by proxy he

received unless .such proxy shall have been created,

within ninety days next proceeding that on which such

note shall be tendered.

Elect 14 directors

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That at all elections for

president and directors, to be held after the sixth day

of June in this present year, there shall be chosen four-

teen directors who, together with the president, shall

constitute, the board of president and directors, any

Vacancies

eight of whom shall constitute a quorum, and if at any

time hereafter a vacancy shall occur in the board, by

death, it shall be lawful for the remaining members to

fill the same by electing, a person to serve until the

next general meeting of proprietors.

Act of 1835 re-

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That the act, entitled,

pealed

a further supplement to an act, entitled, an act to in-

corporate a company for the purpose of cutting and

making a canal between the river Delaware and the

Chesapeake bay, passed at December session, one

thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, be and the

same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 380.

Passed May 25, 1836

A further supplement to the act, entitled, an act to define

and enlarge the powers of Courts of Equity.

Case of sale of property

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That in all cases hereafter to be instituted

in the Court of Chancery, or any County Court as a

Court of Equity, praying a sale of any property or es-

tate, real, personal or mixed, upon any lien, or liabi-

Upon lien of debt it being the ulti-mate relief

lity for any debt, or where for satisfying the equitable

rights as set forth in the bill or petition in the case; a

sale shall in the opinion of the court, be the proper, di-

rect or ultimate relief, and where the person or per-

sons, or body corporate, holding or representing such

property or estate, or the interest therein, legal or

equitable, and who shall be parties to such hill or pe-