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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 227.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact section ten of chap-

ter two hundred and fourteen, passed at December

session, eighteen hundred and forty-two, entitled

"An act to incorporate the Mutual Fire Insurance

Company of Harford county."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That section ten of chapter two

hundred and fourteen of the acts of December session

Repealed and
re-enacted.

of eighteen hundred and forty-two, entitled "An act
to incorporate the Mutual Fire Insurance Company

of Harford county," be and the same is hereby re-

pealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

10. And be it enacted, That whenever it shall be

Assessment

found necessary by the Board of Directors to make

to pay losses.

an assessment to pay a loss or losses for which the

said company may be liable, it shall be the duty of

said board to ascertain the amount so to be raised,

and the proportion thereof, or sum to be paid or con-

tributed by each member of said company, and to

notify each member of the sum so to be paid by him

or her, and if at the end of sixty days from the date

of such notice, any member of said corporation shall

have failed to pay his or her contribution as afore-

said, it shall be lawful for the said Board of Directors,

upon filing in the office of the clerk of the circuit

court for the county where such defaulting members

may reside, an account or statement of the amount

Verify by
oath

by such defaulting member due for such contribution,
verified by the oath of the secretary of said company,
to cause execution to issue for the amount so due in

the same manner as if judgment had been rendered

in said court for the same, together with all costs

incident to such proceedings.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1880.