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derogatory to the financial condition or affecting the solvency or financial
standing of any bank, savings institution or trust company doing business
in this State, or who shall counsel, aid, procure or induce another to start,
transmit or circulate any such statement or rumor, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent juris-
diction, may be fined a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or be
imprisoned for a period not exceeding three years.

An. Code, sec. 78. 1912, ch. 194, sec. 77.

81. Said Bank Commissioner may appoint an attorney to perform such
duties as he may be required by said Bank Commissioner, and receive such
compensation as may be approved by the Board of Public Works of the
State.

An. Code, sec. 79. 1912, ch. 194, sec. 2.

82. All acts and parts of acts of which the Act of 1912, Chapter 194,
is amendatory, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provi-
sions of said act are hereby repealed; and also all charters of institutions
which are subject to the provisions of said act heretofore granted by the
General Assembly of Maryland where the franchises shall not have been
availed of to the extent of forming a complete organization and establishing
an office by the first day of January, 1914, are hereby repealed.