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	and sixty of article twenty-six of the Code of Public
	General Laws, entitled " Corporations," and the
	said corporation shall be entitled to retain in its
	treasury the amount of its capital stock not taken
	at the time of the filing of the said certificate, to be
	disposed of as the said corporation may deem best
	for its interests, and the said corporation shall be
	entitled to all rights and privileges which are by	Rights and
	said article twenty-six of the Code conferred on cor-	privileges.
	porations whose stock is fully paid up; provided,
	however, that the said corporation shall acquire no
	right whatever under this act unless the said certifi-
	cate shall be made and filed prior to the expiration
	of four years from the date of its certificate of incor-
	poration, nor unless there shall be filed with the
	certificate so to be made and filed as aforesaid, a
	sworn statement of the president of the said corpora-
	tion, showing that all debts of the said corporation,
	other than its bonded indebtedness, have been fully
	paid and satisfied, or that the corporation has funds
	on hand to pay such debts when legally demand able.
	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	Effective.
	effect from the date of its passage.
	Approved April 10, 1880.

	CHAPTER 216,
	AN ACT to repeal section seven hundred and eighty-
	three of article four of the Maryland Code of Pub-
	lic Local Laws, title " City of Baltimore," sub-
	title " Mortgages," and to re-enact the same with
	amendments.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That section seven hundred and	Repealed and
	eighty-three of article four of the Code of Public	re-enacted.
	Local Laws, title " City of Baltimore," sub-title
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