LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 54.
AN ACT to amend Article 12 of the Code of Public General
Laws, entitled "Bastardy and Fornication," by adding thereto
Section 9.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Article 12 of the Code of Public General Laws,
entitled "Bastardy and Fornication," be amended by adding
thereto the following section :
9. Whenever any principal, surety or other person in in-

Amended.

terest upon competent testimony makes it to appear to the
satisfaction of any court in which a recognizance in any bas-
tardy case is entered up that by reason of the death of the
child, or by reason of the payment of all dues arising under
said recognizance, or for any other reason, the recognizance
should be discharged, the court may make such order of dis-
charge or annulment of the recognizance or such other order
as may be deemed appropriate by the court to discharge the
obligors in the recognizance and the record of the entry of
such recognizance.
Approved March 14, 1898.

CHAPTER 55.
AN ACT to amend the Act of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed at the session of eighteen hundred and
eighty -four, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Mercantile
Trust and Deposit Company of Baltimore."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the second section of the Act of the Gen-

Court may
make order
of dis-
charge, etc.

eral Assembly of Maryland, passed at the session of eighteen
hundred and eighty-four, entitled "An Act to incorporate the
Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company of Baltimore," be
and the same is amended so that the said company shall have
the privilege to increase its capital stock to the amount of five
millions of dollars, in the manner stated in said section, and if
any increase of said capital stock shall be made, from time to
time, the increased capital stock may be disposed of among
the stockholders proportionately to their holdings, at such
prices not less than par value, and in such manner as the board
of directors of said company shall determine, and any part
thereof not taken by the shareholders, within the time limited
by said board, may be in like manner disposed of by said board

Amendment