JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR .

1826.

compose the first district; Prince-George's county and Mont-
gomery county, shall comply the second .district; Frederick
county, Washington county, and Allegany county, shall com-
pose the third district; Baltimore city, Annapolis city, and
Anne-Arundel county, shall compose the fourth district; Balti-
more county the fifth district; Harford county and Cecil county
shall compose the sixth district; Kent county and Queen- Anne's
county shall compose the seventh district; Talbot county, Caro-
line county, and the first election district of Dorchester county
shall compose the eighth district; and the remainder of Dor-
chester county, Somerset county, and Worcester county, shall
compose the ninth district; and each of the said districts shall
elect one person, being a resident of the said district, except
the third and fourth districts, which shall each be; entitled to
two electors, residents of the respective districts, as an elector
or electors, as the case may be, for choosing a president and

CHAP. 213

vice-president of the United States.
2. And be it enacted, That all acts of assembly repugnant
to, or inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed.

Repeal

CHAP. CCXIV.
An Act for the Payment of the Journal of Accounts.

WHEREAS it appears by the journal of accounts of this sessi-
on, that there is due from this state the sum of forty-three thou-
sand five hundred and one dollars and sixty-two cents.

Passed Mar 12, 1127
Preamble

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That -the treasurer of the western shore be, and he is hereby au-
thorised and required, to pay the several persons, their execu-
tors, administrators, assigns or orders, or to such of them as
shall offer to receive the same, the several sums of current mo-
ney allowed to them respectively, as they appear to be settled
and ascertained by the said journal of accounts, out of any mo-
ney now ia the treasury, or that shall come into the treasury,
subject to the appropriation of the general assembly.

Treasurerr auth-
rised to pay, &c

CHAP. CCXV.
An Act to regulate the amount of Capital on which the Annual Tax shall be
paid by the Banks therein mentioned.

WHEREAS the capital stocks of the Union Bank of Mary-
land, of the Mechanics Bank of. Baltimore, and of the Com-
mercial and Farmers Bank of Baltimore, and the rates of the
shares of the said stocks respectively, have been reduced by
several acts of assembly to their actual valiie, as impaired by
losses; and it is just and reasonable that the stockholders in the
said several banks should only pay a tax upon the actual amount
of their respective stocks so impaired and reduced;

Passed Mar 12, 1827

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the president and directors of the Union Bank of Maty-
land shall hereafter pay the annual tax of twenty cents only on
each one hundred dollars of the capital stock of their said bank
actually paid in, as the amount thereof has been reduced and
fated by a supplement to the charter of the said bank, passed
at December session in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-
one, chapter one hundred and sixty-six and upon any increase

Amount of tax
on capital to be
paid by Union
Bank of Maryland