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in the seventeenth section of said act of incorporation of eighteen
hundred and thirty-one, chapter one hundred and thirty-three, to be
applied to the purpose in said section expressed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Bank shall be subject to
such restrictions and enjoy the same privileges in regard to the issue of
its Bank notes, and the denominations thereof as are or may be pre-
scribed or allowed by law in relation to the issues of Banks generally
in this State.

SEC. 4. And tie it enacted, That notices for elections of Directors
and for general meetings of Stockholders of said Bank, shall be suf-
ficient, if published in such newspaper as may be published in Williams-
port, in one newspaper published in Hagerstown, and in one newspaper
published in the city of Baltimore.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said Bank shall have the power,
and it is hereby authorized to deal, besides the things already provided
in said act of incorporation or make investments in the stock of the
State of Maryland or of the city of Baltimore, or any other public
stocks of the State of Maryland, or any solvent State of the United
States, paying at least six per cent, interest quarterly or semi-annually.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the number of Directors in said
Bank for the management of the same and its said office of Discount
and Deposit, shall be eleven, who shall reside in Washington county;
but said number may at any time, and whenever the President and
Directors shall deem it expedient, and shall so order and direct, be in-
creased by the addition of three whose residences shall be in any other
county or counties of this State, or of either, or both of the adjoining:
States of Virginia and Pennsylvania, from which the interests of the
Bank may from time to time require them to be chosen.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the Stockholders and Directors of
said Bank shall be liable to the amount of their respective shares of
stock in said Bank for all the debts and liabilities of said Bank upon
note, bill or otherwise, and to be created or incurred after this act shall
have gone into operation and under the same.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That no Director or other officer of said
Bank shall borrow any money from said corporation; and in case of
the violation of this section, directly or indirectly, by any Director or
other officer of said Bank, and he shall thereof be convicted, upon in-
dictment, he shall be punished for the same by fine or imprisonment at
the discretion of the court.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That this act shall be taken and consid-
ered as part of the said act of eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter
one hundred and thirty-three, and1 its said supplements, and the other
acts in the first section hereof mentioned, whenever the same shall be