ART. 11] DESTRUCTION OF NOTES—REPORTS. 299
dollars for each failure or neglect, to be recovered by indictment
in the circuit court for the county where the savings bank may
be located, or in the criminal court of Baltimore; as the case
may be.
1888, art. 11, sec. 8. 1860, art. 12, sec. 16. 1840, ch. 85.
10. The courts of this State, upon petition of any party hold-
ing or being possessed in trust of the notes payable on demand
or to bearer, of any insolvent banking corporation, may direct
an inspection and audit of such bank notes, and after a partic-
ular count and statement thereof, made under order of and filed
in court, shall direct such bank notes to be burned or destroyed
by the sheriff of the county in the presence of the petitioner or
his counsel, and a report of such burning and destruction shall
be made to the court giving such order.
Ibid. sec. 9. 1860, art. 12, sec 17. 1836, ch. 272
11. Any bank may recover on a note made payable to such
bank, or made payable to any of its officers.
Ibid. sec. 10. 1860, art. 12, sec. 18. 1898, ch. 277.
12. Every banking association authorized by its charter to
do a banking business in this State shall make to the treas-
urer of the State of Maryland not less than five reports during
each year according to the form which may be prescribed by
him, which reports shall be verified by the oath or affirmation
of the president, cashier or treasurer of such association or
trust company, and attested by the signatures of at least three
of the directors thereof, such oath or affirmation to be made
before any officer of this State authorized to take acknowledg-
ments of deeds; and every report so made shall exhibit in detail
and under appropriate heads the resources and liabilities of
such association, at the close of business on any past day by
him, the treasurer, specified, and which said reports, respect-
ively, shall be transmitted to the treasurer of this State within
five days after the receipt of his request or requisition therefor,
and a summary of such report shall be published in some
newspapers published in the city or county where such associa-
tion in this State may be located, and if there be no newspapers
published in such city or county, then such summary shall be
published in a newspaper published in a county adjacent
thereto; the publication of which said reports shall be at the
expense of the respective associations in this State thus mak-
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