20 ATTORNEYS—BANKS. [ARTS. 11-12.
ARTICLE XI.
Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in fact.
The Act of 1862, ch. 177, amends section 18, as follows:
SEC. 1. The State's Attorney for each county shall, in such
county, prosecute and defend on the part of the State all cases
in which the State may be interested; and whenever in any case
which he shall so prosecute founded on an indictment or pre-
sentment found in any county or the city of Baltimore, an appeal
shall be taken by either party to the Court of Appeals, it shall
also be the duty of said State's Attorney to prosecute or defend,
as the case may be, said appeal in the Court of Appeals, for
which service he shall be entitled to such compensation as may
be allowed by the county commissioners of the county where
said presentment or indictment was found, or by the Criminal
Court of Baltimore where indictment was found in said city, to
be levied, collected and paid as other costs now are in such
cases; and in no such case shall counsel fees be paid by the
State, unless to counsel specially retained by the Governor.
The Act of 1862, ch. 179, repeals section 16, and enacts the following substitute:
2. No Register of Wills, or deputy register, clerk of any court,
or deputy clerk, shall practice as an attorney at law in any of
the courts of this State, for any person or persons.
ARTICLE XII.
Banks.
The Act of May 3, 1861, ch. 5, suspends sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, of this Article,
and enacts as follows:
SEC. 1. No corporation of this State, authorized to issue notes
for circulation, shall be subject to any forfeiture or penalty for
not redeeming such notes in specie before the eleventh day of
March, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.
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