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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Additional
justice.

and empowered to appoint an additional justice of the peace
in and for the first election district of Caroline county in addi-
tion to those now required to be appointed by existing laws.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6th, 1894.

CHAPTER 329.

AN ACT to add two sections to Article eleven of the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Banks," to be
designated as Sections seven A and seven B.

New sections,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That two additional sections, designated sections
seven A and seven B, be added to article eleven of the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland, title " Banks," to follow
after section seven, and to read as follows :

list of depos-
itors not
heard from
for 30 years.

7 A. In the month of October, in the year 1895, and in every
second year thereafter, the treasurer of every savings bank or
savings institution in the State of Maryland, shall deliver to
the Comptroller a written statement, sworn to by him or by
the president of such savings bank, containing the name and
amount standing to his or her credit of every depositor who
shall not have made any deposit therein or withdrawn any
money upon their accounts for the period of twenty years next
prior to the first day of the preceding September; provided,
that this section shall not apply to the deposit made by any
person known to the said treasurer to be living. The Comp-
troller shall communicate the statements which shall be so
delivered to him to the General Assembly in his next report.

Penalty.

7 B. Any treasurer of any savings bank in the State of Mary-
land, who shall fail or neglect to comply with the provisions
of the preceding section, shall be subject to a fine of five
hundred dollars for each failure or neglect, to be recovered by
indictment in the Circuit Court for the county where the
savings bank may be located, or in the Criminal Court of
Baltimore city, as the case may be.