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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Liability.
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SEC. 10. And be it enacted,
That the stockholders
and directors shall be liable to the amount of their respective
share or shares in the corporation, created by
this act; and no director or other officer of said corporation
shall borrow any money from said corporation,
and any violation of this provision shall be a forfeiture
of this act of incorporation, and of all rights acquired
by the corporation, under, and by virtue thereof.
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Subject
to
provisions of
general banking
law.
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SEC. 11. And be it enacted,
That the corporation
created by this act, shall be subject to all the provisions
of any general law for the regulation of banking corporations
which may hereafter be passed, and the Legislature
may, at any time, alter or repeal this act.
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In force.
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SEC. 12. And be it enacted,
That this act shall take
effect from and after the day of its passage.
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Passed May
6, 1853.
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CHAPTER 194.
AN ACT to incorporate the Baltimore and Potomac
Rail Road Company.
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Commissioners
appointed.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Thomas G. Pratt, John S. Sellman,
Charles R. Stewart, Rezin Hammond, George
Wells, Owen Disney, John T. Hodges, James S.
Owens, Thomas F. Bowie, George Morton, William
R. Barker, William P. Brooke, Dr. Charles Duvall,
W. W. W. Bowie, Charles C. Hill, Thomas J. Marshall,
Nicholas H. Shipley, P. W. Crain, William B.
Stone, John Matthews, John W. Jenkins, Francis
Thompson, Uzial Nalley, Walter Mitchell, Edmund
Perry, George Thomas, Richard H. Miles, Edmund J.
Plowden, John C. Brune, John S. Gittings, James
Carroll, Edward Reynolds, Henry Garrett, Francis
Neale, Zenus Barnum and William Baker, be, and
they are hereby appointed commissioners under the
direction of any five of whom, subscriptions may be received
to the capital stock of the Baltimore and Potomac
rail road company, hereby incorporated, and they
or any five of them may cause books to be opened at
such times and places as any five of them may direct,
for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to the capital
stock of said company, after having given such notice
of the times and places of opening the same as they
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