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up to twenty thousand, two-thirds of the stock then issued
vote in favor of such increase.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the directors of said body
corporate shall have the power to declare such dividends of
the profits of said body corporate as they may deem proper,
provided that no dividend shall be declared when the capital
stock will be impaired thereby.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the stockholder of this said
body corporate shall be liable to the amount of their respec-
tive shares of stock in said body corporate for all its debts and
liabilities upon note, bill or otherwise.

SEC. 7- And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1908.

CHAPTER 177.

AN ACT to appropriate thirteen hundred dollars to pay unto
Ferdinand Williams, of Allegany county, a fee for legal ser-
vices rendered the State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland be and
he is hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon
the Treasurer of the State for thirteen hundred dollars in
favor of Ferdinand Williams to pay unto him in full fees for
legal services rendered to the State in the trial of the case
of the State of Maryland against the Fidelity Bank of Frost-
burg, and in the case of the State of Maryland versus German
Savings Bank of Cumberland, in the Circuit Court for Alle-
gany county, and the trial of the same cases in the Court of
Appeals of Maryland, the said sum being in addition to the
sum of two hundred dollars heretofore paid him, said thirteen
hundred dollars being hereby appropriated to be paid out of
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to said
Ferdinand Williams as aforesaid.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 13, 1908.

CHAPTER 224.

AN ACT to refund to Oregon Milton Dennis, State Game
Warden, the sum of eight hundred and seventy-five dollars