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	tion to investigate the affairs of said corporation, and to publish
	a report of such investigation in one or more newspapers pub-
	lished in Carroll connty, and also omitted to declare a dividend
	once in every six months in each and every year of the interest
	and profits of said institution.
	WHEREAS, it appears that the affairs of said institution are in
	a prosperous and strong financial condition, and that said omissions	Preamble.
	have been by inadvertence and not with the intention of evading
	the requirements of the law ;
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
	That the acts of the Westminster savings institution in omitting to
	appoint in every twelve months five competent members of said cor-
	poration as a committee of examination to investigate the affairs of
	said corporation, and make and publish a report of such investiga-
	tion in one ov more newspapers published in Carroll county, and to
	make and declare a dividend of the interest and profits of said in-
	stitution once in every six months in each and every year, be and	Make valid
	the same are hereby made valid and legal to the- extent that said
	omissions shall not be cause for the forfeiture of the charter of said
	corporation; provided, the directors of said corporation shall Avithin
	three mouths from the date of the passage of this act and there-
	after, comply with the provisions of article twenty-three, section
	two hundred and nineteen, of the Code of Public General Laws of
	the State of Maryland relating to corporations.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the	Effective.
	date of its passage.
	Approved March 14, 1890.

	CHAPTER 116.
	AN ACT to pay Levin A. Insley and Corbin W. Insley, owners of
	the pungy Eva Hemmingsway, the sum of two thousand eight
	hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-five cents, indem-
	nity to them for the destruction and loss of said pungy her
	cargo and moneys aboard the same, by the collision of the State
	steamer Governor McLane.
	WHEREAS, on the night of September the fifth, A. D. eighteen
	hundred and eighty-eight, the State steamer Governor McLane did
	collide with and sink the pungy Eva Hemmingsway near the
	mouth of the Severn river, and upon full legal investigation thereof by the United States local inspector for Baltimore, it was adjudged and decided that the said State steamer and the captain thereof	Preamble.
	were in fault and responsible for said collision; and,